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

it was not subject to revision based on who was having a better month.

I took a breath and typed back: Okay.

I did not add a period. A period would have looked like feeling, and I had learned some time ago to keep feeling out of these exchanges with my family, because feeling was the thing they used to reframe every situation as a problem I had caused continue reading …