介绍： 054 | A Flower Delivery That Brought More Pain Than Pleasure

With the best of intentions, I once did something regrettable.

I sent my younger sisters flowers.

The three of us have always been close. When we reunite at home, images of us in matching ballet tutus dance across the wall, our childhood selves r...

介绍： 054 | A Flower Delivery That Brought More Pain Than Pleasure

With the best of intentions, I once did something regrettable.

I sent my younger sisters flowers.

The three of us have always been close. When we reunite at home, images of us in matching ballet tutus dance across the wall, our childhood selves reanimated via the grainy slides our parents project onto a tacked-up sheet in the living room. En pointe at the annual recital, arms raised, I graze my sisters’ shoulders with my fingers, conjoining us. We touch in nearly every picture.

In a flash of light, we are repositioned as Catholic schoolgirls, strolling hand in hand down the street. Another flash and we are younger still, the two of them riding me like a pack mule, chubby hands knotted in the mane of my hair, my red curls clashing with their straight brown locks.

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