Our Triplet Sister Passed Away When We Were Only Eleven—On Our 21st Birthday, Mom Handed Us a Box that She Had Left Behind

think she saw the same thing when she looked at me.

Our Twenty-First Birthday

By the time our twenty-first birthday arrived, I thought I had learned how to live with that emptiness.

I was wrong.

That morning, I woke before my alarm and lay in the pale light of my apartment, listening to the city outside.

Twenty-one was supposed to feel exciting.

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