Dear Lily,

I'm sorry I stopped so abruptly last time. Rasheeda knows me well enough to be able to tell when my blood pressure is rising and comes running to harass me. I will try to keep my head.

From that day on, the day Toby spent the night with Deidre, I decided I hated my sister.

I often wondered why Mary was taken and Deidre wasn’t but I knew it’s because God likes the good ones and heaven is a much nicer place to live than on Earth. Deidre was bedding the man of my dreams and had hurt so many others, why would God want her?

This sounds incredibly queer, even to me, but after all of that mess, sometimes I could feel Toby's arms around me in a warm embrace and hear him, in my head, ask me, “A...

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