Our Daughter Had a Twin Sister We Never Told Her About—On Her 18th Birthday, My Husband Brought Out a Chest He’d Been Building for 18 Years

Anxiety over grades.

At seventeen:

College applications.

There was always another reason.

My mother removed an old hospital photograph from her hallway before Chloe became old enough to ask why there were two babies in it.

My sister learned not to mention Elena around her.

Arthur’s brother stopped saying:

“The twins.”