I Refused To Babysit My Sister’s Twins And Slipped Away At The Airport Until My Phone Was Flooded With Messages

have not asked me. That is unfair to them and to me.

My mother called within the hour.

“This is so formal,” she said, as though structure itself were a form of unkindness.

“Yes. That’s the point.”

She made the usual arguments: family shouldn’t need rules, love shouldn’t sound like a legal document, everything had been blown far out of proportion. I listened,continue reading …