Maya's thumb hovered over the delete button, trembling slightly in the blue light of her phone screen. (The thing about forgiveness is that it often requires more courage in the digital age, when evidence of hurt can be archived indefinitely.) Thirty-seven unread messages from her sister Rachel sat in her inbox, their subject lines a timeline of evolving emotions: "Please read this," "We need to talk," "I'm sorry," and finally, simply, "Miss you." The last one had arrived exactly three months, two weeks, and four days ago. Not that Maya was counting. She glanced at her laptop, where her latest food blog post sat half-finished. The irony wasn't lost on her – here she was, a successful culinary influencer who specialized in family recipes and dinner table conversations, while her own family story had a gaping hole in it the size of her sister's absence. "You okay there, boss?" Jerome, her assistant, peered over his vintage...
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