The Letter I Never Sent

The Letter I Never Sent

I never sent the letter. I told myself I didn’t know what to say, but the truth is, I didn’t know how to say thank you and I’m sorry in the same breath. After my mother died, everything that had once felt familiar unraveled overnight. The family home had to be sold to settle the estate, and my siblings — three older, three younger — scattered like pieces of a map that no longer fit together. My older brothers and sisters each had families of the…