Curly and his parents were gone a week. Thanksgiving with The Whole Family went by in a daze. There was a new baby cousin to cuddle, and I did hold her, but I just couldn’t get into it. I wondered what her parents would think if she turned out to be gay. Would they still love her, or would they say she was nuts. Didn’t anything ever get better as time went on?
Nell was being even nicer than before, which I didn’t really understand, but hey, good for her. Other than that one guy, or maybe because of him, she seemed to have nicer friends, from what I saw whenever she had one over. What was that all about? I decided that since I was the older sister, maybe it was up to me to be nicer to her, to show her how it was supposed to—could—be. Why not? Nothing was coming in for me, and I didn’t thin
