The Day Before My Sister’s Wedding I Woke Up To Find My Hair Had Been Cut While I Slept

some time. Not the self my family had been constructing for twenty-six years, the one who made herself smaller so that Ashley’s insecurities had room to breathe, but an actual self, present and deliberate and wearing a suit that fit.

We arrived at the venue forty minutes early. I helped with a flower arrangement crisis, substituting eucalyptus for the continue reading …