The Best Sister

In the womb, Olivia and Hailey Scheinman formed to the thump of the same heartbeat. Cells divided and organs sprouted, skin and hair knitted together while fluids swirled. Their mother rocked them with her every step.

For reasons no one knows, something didn’t proceed normally for Olivia. During the first trimester, her brain didn’t form the way it should, the way her twin sister’s did.