My Brother Said There Was No Room For Me On The Christmas Trip Until They Saw My Vacation Photos

off social media notifications before we left, which meant the buzzing represented something that had found another way through. I picked it up and saw missed calls from Liam, a sequence of texts from my mother, and a notification: a college friend had tagged me in a TikTok.

I tapped it.

The video opened on the Vail lodge, the long dining table set for continue reading …