all decided not to tell them.”
“We all decided to tell them at eighteen,” Dana said. “And then we didn’t.”
She looked at me.
“I wrote it on a sticky note so I wouldn’t forget,” she said. “And then I just stopped looking at the folder.”
“Why didn’t you tell Ben?” I asked. “When he asked you?”
Dana paused for a long while.
“Because it wasn’t just my secret,” she said. “It was yours too. And Mike’s. I couldn’t tell Ben he had a half-brother without telling him who. And
