I Went to Visit My Sister After She Gave Birth Until I Heard My Husband and Mother Talking About Me

was, by almost any external measure, doing well. The firm was growing. The work was meaningful. Her father called on Sunday mornings now in addition to their Tuesday dinners, short calls about nothing in particular, the kind that accumulate over time into something that resembles closeness.

There were still hard days. Days when she passed the fertility continue reading …