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

twin, of having that particular witness, of knowing someone’s handwriting the way you know your own. That loss was real and I wasn’t going to pretend it wasn’t.

But alongside it—present simultaneously, not canceling the grief but existing at the same time—was something else. A kind of clarity. A sense of being accurately located in my own life for the continue reading …