During a Family Livestream, My Niece Snapped the Bracelet Off My Wrist

days. They needed me to fix it. Whoever the donor was, they had clearly made some kind of error. Their card had probably expired.

“No,” I said.

The word dropped into the room and the silence that followed it had a different quality than the usual silences in my family, which were always temporary, always waiting to be filled by someone capitulating.

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