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

Aunt Tara would probably take them because she always came through. She said she had known that asking me in advance would produce the answer no, so she had waited until it would cost me more.

“I thought if you saw them there,” she said, “you wouldn’t be able to walk away.”

“You were right that it was hard,” I said. “You were wrong that hard meant impossible.continue reading …