The living room of this big house is an island of light. Now that you’re here, the “Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” as your uncle Ted long ago playfully dubbed this generation of only-child cousins, are reunited for the first time in almost ten years. You feel the time, but quickly fall into a familiar dynamic: You resume the role you once imagined as that of the “quiet observer,” but what others saw, Katy would reveal to you years later, as the “pretentious loner.”
