Useless? My mother laughed. ‘Twenty years in uniform and still no house, daughter?’ My father said, ‘Your sister is our future.’ Then a helicopter landed. A Colonel walked straight toward me, saluted, and said, ‘General, headquarters needs you right now.’ My father’s smile vanished. My sister’s bouquet slipped from his hands. The whole school fell silent.
Mom laughed. Twenty years in uniform and still no house. Dad said my sister’s our future. Then a helicopter landed….