My Sister Said I Didn’t Count and Seated Me by the Trash at Her Wedding So I Left a Small Silver Gift on the Present Table

and more tentative than before, as though she is still deciding what kind of relationship she wants with me and has not yet finished the calculation. I do not push the process. I have stopped pushing processes.

My father sent a card at my birthday for the first time in several years. He did not write much inside it, just my name and his name and a sentence continue reading …