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

in the back of my cabinet, bought weeks ago and forgotten, from a different bakery that I trusted for different reasons. I set it on the table beside the candle.

It wasn’t a party. It wasn’t what a twenty-fifth birthday is supposed to look like. There was no tent of fairy lights, no three-tier cake with gold lettering, no caption about being surrounded continue reading …