Susan Barr-Toman is a novelist and essayist. A finalist for the CRAFT Literary Nonfiction contest, her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Citron Review, River Teeth's Beautiful Things and Brevity's Nonfiction Blog, among others. Breath by Breath, her craft book on mindful writing, will be out in 2025. She is currently at work on an essay collection.

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INSIGHT

The Vanishing

By SUSAN BARR-TOMAN

Maybe this is why people are obsessed with twins: they have a sense of loss, something missing, someone missing.