‘I only wanted to see you out of curiosity, not because I missed you’: the letter you always wanted to write
You’ll be a teenager this year, but you were eight when I knew you. I often wonder what you and your sister are like, all these years later – but I particularly wonder about you.
I knew from early on that you would be hard to handle. Parents shouldn’t have favourites, but I was never sure whether it was OK for me, an outsider, to prefer your younger sister to you. I felt guilty about it because it seemed to me that she was your parents’ favourite, too. Did your braces work? I hope so; I’ve never known anyone, child or adult, with more crooked teeth.
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