My son had not spoken for eight years, not since the day we buried his twin sister. Then, during our yearly family dinner, he pointed at his father and said, “You knew why I stopped talking.”
Jeremy and Janice were born eleven minutes apart.
For the first five years of their lives, they were almost never apart. They even slept better when they shared a room.
Then my husband took them to the lake.
Only Jeremy returned.
Zane told me Janice had slipped on the rocks and been swept away by the current. He said he jumped in after her. He said he kept swimming until his body had nothing left to give.
Her body was never recovered.
The police ruled it a tragic accident.
Jeremy stopped speaking on the day of Janice’s funeral.
