12. SISTER TO SISTER
Rosa stood by the door of the kitchen she ran around in as a child; she was staring at her sister, eating a plate of chocolate chip cookies and a glass of milk. Rosa looked for Lily everywhere in the house before finally finding her here. She even checked the garden where they both played with his children, where their mother planted her favorite flowers, lilies and roses. Lily inherited her mother’s green thumb, and she loved her flowers; she even had a pet flower, a hibiscus flower, and she named it Rivera Hibiscus. Rosa looked for her sister, and now that she finally found her, it seemed so difficult to move her legs, to open her mouth, to tell Lily that she was sorry.
“Good day, Ms. Rosa,” the cook greeted; she was new, not the one Rosa grew up with, but her word
