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

the same careful rituals, the same checked ingredients, the same specific caution that became second nature to everyone in our family the way allergies do when they’re taken seriously.

You don’t forget something like that about your twin. You don’t forget twenty-five years of two jars of everything. You choose to ignore it. You make a choice.

I lay in continue reading …