Chapter 20: The Opened Neckline

”Baby, look at this. Isn’t this dress torn?”

I looked up from the sofa. I was halfway through coding, and there was a bunch of error messages on the screen that I hadn’t processed yet.

My mom stood at the bedroom door, pulling the collar of my dark blue T-shirt open to show me.

At the left seam of the neckline, a loose thread had come undone, creating a small triangular tear in the cotton fabric. The reason was simple: this T-shirt was originally mine, a men’s size M, wide enough in the shoulders but not big enough in the…