All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

Author:Nicole Chung
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2018-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

There is another sister. Her name is Cindy. She is 33 years old, and beautiful like you. I told her about you.

This was the part of Jessica’s email that interested me more than all the rest. I read these words over and over, trying to think what “beautiful like me” could mean—I’d never thought of myself as attractive, partly a function of growing up in my overwhelmingly white hometown. As my full sister, did Cindy look the most like me out of all of them? Was she taller or shorter than me? Was she also a night owl, chatty but socially awkward, too lazy for makeup, always in the middle of reading five books at once? Did she save her best singing for the car? Did she ever dream about becoming a writer?

Where my birth parents were concerned, I now felt an urge, justified or not, to protect myself—not to shut things down, but to proceed slowly and warily, for reasons I could not quite identify. But despite these misgivings and the guilt I felt over my sisters’ shock, knowing that they were no longer in ignorance of my existence filled me with a strange hope, a wild and new kind of happiness.

They were out there. They might want to know more about me. Whatever had happened with our parents, whatever might have gone wrong in our family, maybe this was a new beginning.

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