THE WRONG TWIN
She looked, Sophie thought, like a woman who had decided to put something down that she had been carrying too long.
"I tried to sacrifice both of my daughters' happiness for a business arrangement," Margaret said. The words were plain and deliberate, the way her mother said things when she had rehearsed them enough times that the rehearsal had burned away and only the truth was left. "I told myself it was for the family. For stability. For the future. And those things were true — but they were not the whole truth, and I knew they weren't, and I kept arranging and managing and planning anyway." She paused. "I watched Charlotte disappear into a life she didn't want, and I told myself it was he