Dear Sugar Letter #5

This Is Not A Chapter Of Your Life

Victorian mourning bracelet with a band of woven hair, circa 1865. Photo credit: Hulton Archives/Getty Images

Dear Sugar,

My mother died in April of 2003 after a terrible battle with adrenal cancer. When she died, my father sat my twin sister and me on his lap and told us she was gone. We were nine years old. This is where I have always thought my story b…