My Sister’s Substitute
Looked at her sister one more time — at the strong jaw and the tired eyes and the woman who had been through more in the last six weeks than most people went through in a lifetime and was still, fundamentally, completely Anna.
"I love you," she said. She didn't say it often. Neither of them did. It was a Sabalenka thing — love expressed through showing up rather than saying, through presence rather than declaration.
Anna looked at her.
"I love you too," she said. "You absolute disaster of a sister."
Irina walked out smiling.
They left the hospital at midnight.
The three of them in Curtis's car, Atlanta doing its deep night thing outside, quiet and amber and indifferent.
Nobody spoke for a wh
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