They “Accidentally” Scheduled A Family Cruise On My Birthday For Five Years — So I Started A Tradition Of My Own

— not resentment, exactly, but a crack in the facade. A glimpse of someone recalibrating.

“I guess I never really thought about what you gave up,” Amanda said quietly. “For Grandma and Grandpa. For all of us.”

“No,” Beatrice said. “You didn’t.”

Amanda flinched. But she didn’t argue. And that was something.

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