“She’s back,” Taylor announces to her phone, her voice filled with theatrical awe. “Y’all, my baby sister Charmaine is finally back with us. Twenty years. Can you believe it? God is so good.” Her phone camera flashes toward me, and I flinch, trying to duck out of the frame. “Taylor, put that damn phone down!” Chalene snaps, twisting in her seat to glare at her. “Can we have one day? Just one day where you aren’t broadcasting every little thing to your followers?” “It’s not just ‘every little thing,’ Mom,” Taylor shoots back, her tone sharp. “This is Charmaine’s story. People want to know.”
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