The Day They Chose Her, I Got Into Oxford
Language: en
On my eighteenth birthday, I spent 7 hundred dollars I'd painstakingly earned from my part-time job. I invited my parents and brother to a French restaurant. But, in the end, they stood me up. They went to Disneyland with my adopted sister, Luna. The fireworks on their Ins stories stung my eyes. I couldn't help but call, wanting to demand: Compared to Luna, aren't I your real family? But before I could even speak, Luna's voice chirped through the phone: "How could Mom and Dad celebrate your birthday? Don't you know you were actually picked up from a hospital dumpster?" In that moment,…