You Will Lose Everything

Summary

The Bright family’s real heiress had a strange quirk: she acted like a baby.

She ate from a baby bowl, slept in a cradle, and needed a stroller to go out. She had our prestigious law firm redecorated as a nursery—cafeteria served purees and rice cereal, clients’ coffee swapped for hand-mixed formula.

“Grown-ups are yucky,” she’d say. “We need to purify the world with childlike innocence!”

Wracked with guilt over losing her as a child, my parents catered to her every whim. Even my fiancé Bruce urged me: “Eloise, you had her life for twenty years. Can’t you be more tolerant?”