Part 1 – The Issue
I am the daughter my family never really saw.
Not because I was invisible. But because my brother Ryan made sure the spotlight never stayed on me long enough for anyone to actually look.
Ryan is three years older than me, and for as long as I can remember, he has been the one my parents built their world around. The one whose report cards went on the fridge. The one whose sports games the whole family drove two hours to watch. The one whose name came up first in every conversa