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

to have equal attention to give.

You cannot earn your way to being equally loved by people who have decided you are not.

That thought arrived simply, without drama, and I sat with it until it stopped feeling like a wound and started feeling like a fact. Facts can be worked with. Facts can be the basis of decisions. Wounds just bleed.

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