My mom kicked me out of the lake house I pay for so my cheating sister could hide with her lover, and when she said, “She’s fragile, Sienna,” I smiled like it was fine. My name is Sienna Carter, I’m 33, and I run finance in downtown Chicago, but the second I step into my parents’ orbit, I still feel like the kid who has to earn a seat at the table. Two years ago I bought a glass-and-cedar lake house a few hours out of the city because I wanted one quiet place where my five-year-old, Mila, could

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