Then, during our annual family dinner, he pointed at his father and said, « You knew why I stopped talking. »
Jeremy and Janice were born eleven minutes apart.
For five years, they were never really separate. They slept better in the same room.
Then my husband took them to the lake.
Only Jeremy came back.
Jeremy stopped speaking the day of Janice’s funeral.
Zane told me Janice slipped on the rocks and the current took her. He said he jumped in after her. He said he kept swimming until he had nothing left. Her body was never found.
The police called it a tragic accident.