
Suddenly when I watched Chrystal unwrap the box, I wasn’t as happy anymore. But something happened to me when I was about nine or ten. In fact, I would get excited watching her unwrap everything because I knew that eventually she would outgrow it, and it would be mine. I didn’t mind that the box was for my sister. Inside was the beautiful kind of clothes little girls used to wear-dresses with big frills at the bottom and patent leather shoes.

Every year a box arrived with Chrystal’s name on it, and every year I watched her unpack all the goodies.

While I was growing up, my grandmother always gave my older sister a box of clothes and shoes for Christmas.
