Each year, my son planted sunflowers in memory of his twin sister who passed away—then one morning, we discovered them all cut down, with a white box left behind.

said she still talked about Patrick, though she called him Pat now.

I let him talk.

I let him build the lie higher and higher until there was nowhere left for him to hide.

Then I said, “Our farmhouse didn’t have a porch until four years after Lily disappeared.”

His mouth twitched.

I took a step closer.

“And Lily never called her brother Pat.”

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