Скачать или смотреть For 20 years,my parents made me write apology letters for things my brother did.At my engagement

For 20 years,my parents made me write
apology letters for things my brother
did.At my engagement dinner, my fiance
finally asked to read one.The first
letter I remember writing was when I
was seven.My brother Tommy had pushed
a kid off the playground slide.The kid
broke his arm. My parents sat me at the
kitchen table with a yellow legal pad
and a pen and told me to apologize.
To who?I asked. To everyone.
My mom said, for upsetting your brother,
I'm sorry. Tommy got angry.
I'll try to be better. My dad read it,
nodded and said, good.
You're the calm one. You know how to fix things.
That became my role. If Tommy screamed at a teacher,
I wrote a letter. If he broke a neighbour's window,
I wrote a letter. If he got suspended,
I wrote a letter to the principal
explaining how we were working on our behaviour.
By middle school, I didn't even question it.
The letters lived in a drawer in my bedroom.
Sometimes my mom would hand me an envelope and say,
you know what to do.
I'd sit on my bed and apologise for things I hadn't done,
smoothing over damage I hadn't caused.
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