It was a website on his phone, not a ring shop, but ring shops are stressful - they make the shopping feel too real, especially when talking to a consultant - so my brother came to me instead of asking any other girl he knows. Looking for rings is just as stressful for me as it is for my brother, but...

I don’t know what happened. I can’t remember. I was driving and then I wasn’t. I saw my passenger curtain airbag go out, subconsciously clenching my necklace, trying to remember what happened to cause this, not yet registering that I was in a crash. I sat in my car for a few minutes that felt...