The Orphan Sister by Gwendolen Gross

Author:Gwendolen Gross
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2011-07-05T00:00:00+00:00

I finished out my sophomore year and took a semester of leave, halfheartedly filling out applications for semester-abroad programs in France, Australia, the Netherlands. I slept in my bed at home for fourteen or fifteen hours, staying up late rereading the books of my childhood, The Phantom Tollbooth, Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, trying not to think of Cameron, but thinking of him just the same.

Dad checked on me when I was home; he’d come in every evening before he went to bed for a depression assessment. He referred me to the best psychiatrist he knew, who prescribed antidepressants. I filled the prescription and kept the pills in one of the makeup bags my mom got free when she bought her cosmetics—we three girls each had a dozen or more. I kept the bag in the file drawer of my desk after Oberlin Application and Ohio Information. O for Only if absolutely necessary. I never took them because I wanted the sadness, even if I were in a hole, at the bottom, no light and no chance of climbing up. I liked it in there, cool and lonely and dark.

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