"Don't worry about it." She was staring at the floor with a neutral look on her face. "We're living together, now more than before, and like you said, we're having to make a bit of an adjustment." She looked up at me and gave me a sweet smile. "And I don't think it’s a big deal if a brother and sister see each naked."

We watched TV for a while until after Mom went to bed, then left the couch for the dogs and headed up to my room to get ready for bed. I went to the bathroom first to get ...