What Liliana Said Made Everyone Freeze
Liliana turned toward the guests with a calm that felt dangerous.
Her face was unreadable.
Like she had been waiting for the room to show its worst so she could deal with it properly.
Then she spoke.
She said when she was my age, she didn’t have much either.
Her cupboards were often empty.
And when she got married, there was no boutique gown waiting for her.
Her mother, she said, sat at the kitchen table night after night and stitched her a dress by hand.
Plain cotton.
But turned into magic.
