There was never this a day spent floating from one thing to another. This was how Alice imagined marriage, and family always having someone to float through the day with, someone with who it didn't take three emails and six texts and a last-minute reservation change to see one another. Everyone had it when they were kids, but only the truly gifted held on to it in adulthood. People with siblings usually had a leg up, but not always.

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub