I want to escape the tyranny of this family’s expectations and make instead some new life, some city life. I want to stop carrying obsessive thoughts of stories I hear on the news and instead to reach out, understand, see with my own eyes. But even more, I want to be in this family, messed up as it is. I want to be my father’s daughter, to solve my sisters’ problems, to be the one who receives my mother’s black pearls, to be Rosemary’s favorite. To be a Sinclair, and to have the security and good standing that all our hard work and dirty money and unearned privilege and intelligence has bought
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