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

sorry. I didn’t want to text it. I wanted to say it.”

The words hung between us in the cold air.

She kept going, words coming faster now, as though she had been rehearsing this and needed to get through it before her nerve gave out. She said she had not thought about anything except how things looked, online, on camera, in the frame. She had not thought continue reading …