"An unlikely accident places siblings in a vulnerable situation."

Enjoy..

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I realize that none of what I'm about to tell you makes sense. Every iota of understanding I have about life, the world, and even human biology tells me there's no way this could have happened. But I swear that it did.

I was enjoying a lazy Monday morning. I'd spent the weekend home from the dorms to enjoy the standard 'free meals and laundry weekend.' I'd slept in because I was at an age (twenty-one years old, if you must know) where anything before 10am felt absolutely ungodly. The house was quiet in a sleepy, post-morning-rush kind of...