The Call I Almost Didn’t Answer
It rang twice before I silenced it. My brother’s name lit up the screen—a name I hadn’t spoken in over four years. We hadn’t fought exactly. We just stopped trying. A slow drift, like two boats that once shared a dock. I stared at the phone, heart thudding. I remembered birthdays missed, messages ignored, the […]
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