By the time you were born, Mom had embraced her back to the earth, hippy side and decided as your older sisters, we should be allowed to attend the birth: that it was a beautiful, natural thing. Our twelve-year-old sister was hesitantly agreeable to the idea, but at ten, I was ecstatic. What an adventure!…

Why did I even bother stocking her closet with summer clothing? She will only wear a bathing suit – all day, every day.