built sandcastles, and sat beneath the stars. That night, Tess whispered, \u201cI think I love you the most.\u201d And Piper let herself cry\u2014not out of loss, but strength. When an invitation to Tess\u2019s birthday\u2014planned entirely by Lizzie\u2014arrived, Piper went. She stood at the edge of a party she hadn\u2019t been invited to help plan, calm and composed. Lizzie tried to offer an apology. Piper asked one question<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThen why did she think I was the evil one?\u201d<\/em> No reply came. But Piper didn\u2019t need one. Tess came home full of glitter and laughter, curled against Piper in bed, asking about happy and sad tears. She understood more than anyone gave her credit for. Now, there\u2019s a photo on their mantle: Piper, Tess, and Gran at the beach. Just the three of them. No ribbons. No pretense. Just real, raw, enduring love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" built sandcastles, and sat beneath the stars. That night, Tess whispered, \u201cI think I love you the most.\u201d And Piper let herself cry\u2014not out of loss, but strength. When an… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":4686,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}