When my family ‘forgot’ to book my plane ticket for my sister’s wedding in Hawaii and said there were no seats or rooms left, I was the only one left out. I just smiled and said, ‘That’s normal,’ and remained silent for a year – then, when I finally returned, what I took with me turned their perfect memories of the island into the most expensive lesson of my life.
I found out I was excluded from my own sister’s wedding on a Tuesday afternoon, sitting in my Denver apartment…