No Place for My Slippers or Me
I come home for the holidays to find four pairs of slippers beside the shoe cabinet. There's a pair for my dad, Dean Pratt, a pair for my mom, Nancy Kerr, and two pairs for my sister, Luna Pratt, including a spare.
Mine isn't there.
Although my sister attended school in another state, kept her room exactly as it was. Even her slippers sit by her bedside, waiting for her return.
I had been away from home for three years. When I returned, I discovered that my belongings had disappeared one by one.
And now, they hadn’t even kept a pair of slippers for me.
I stand in the entryway, my feet bare. "Where’s my pair?"
Mom pokes her head out. "You hardly ever come back, so I threw them away. The