Tag Archives: sisters

Used to it

I didn’t get over losing you easy, Your name still a whisper under my tongue. I woke up today counting the years of it On my fingers: 26 without you. This year is different. Now, I am the last of … Continue reading

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my sister’s birthday

Your eyes opened 47 years ago, May 9, the perfect Mother’s Day present born a month early. I knew this story before I had words to tell it myself, heard it repeated by our mother in the litany of births … Continue reading

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