Every Year He Planted Sunflowers for His Twin Sister—Until One Morning, One Flower Held a Small White Box

have let go of her hand,” he’d say, over and over, like a confession he couldn’t stop repeating even in his sleep. We tried therapy. We tried everything a family can try. Nothing ever managed to breach the part of him that believed, down to his bones, that he had failed his sister in one careless second of childhood.

Then, on what would have been Lily’s continue reading …