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

intimacy of being a twin, the way your life is braided with another person’s from before you can remember, the way you grow up having a witness, someone who is present for all of it from the beginning, someone who knows the version of you that existed before you had any say in who you were becoming.

That intimacy is supposed to be a gift. It is, when continue reading …