I spent years looking down on my older sister—a cleaner I deemed unworthy of my ambition. When she died, I carried guilt over our last cruel exchange. At her funeral, my aunt revealed the truth: my sister had turned down law school so I could have our grandmother’s inheritance. She sacrificed her future for mine, silently proud of every achievement I dismissed her from. Now I study law in her place, living a life made possible by the sister I never truly saw.
