When we were little, we both heard Dad making what had obviously become a standard joke to friends and relatives — that their only daughter had arrived postage-due, “but we kept her anyway.” And he didn’t mean it maliciously, which was almost worse. xx video I paid attention to him especially. But as she got closer and saw the concern on my face, the smile crumpled and she threw her arms around my neck and pressed her face against my shoulder, nearly knocking me off the motorbike. They had half a decade in which to become mutually supportive before Alex and I showed up, and the difference in age between them and us was large enough that we were almost like two separate families.
