“Stay Home — It’ll Be Easier.” My Parents Celebrated My Twin’s 25th Birthday And Left Me Out

me hadn’t held long enough to convince the dispatcher to dismiss me. Lucky that my body had reacted fast enough, clearly enough, undeniably enough, to override whatever narrative had been laid down in advance.

I thought about the word lucky and what it meant that I had to be lucky on my own birthday, in my own kitchen, eating something from a person continue reading …