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Our Strongest Suit

My cousin and I had a secret game growing up in Texas. Instead of a basic game of hide-and-seek, we chose to play — literally — in each other’s closets.

We had five minutes to rummage through the other’s wardrobe and use our imaginations to piece together an ensemble that would, hopefully, impress the other cousin (or at the very

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