I tried to love my sister, the same way I would have loved a handicapped child or one with Down’s Syndrome. But instead of missing a limb or a chromosome, Ellen lacked warm and fuzzy feelings as well as a conscience.
family drama
relationships
She is absent in my waking life, and only appears at night while I sleep. She appears while I am sitting in my old family home, everything as it was when we were children apart from we are adults now.
catholicism
I commented on her Facebook post supporting Chick-Fil-A’s stance against gay marriage. She said she would pray for me and that she still loves me, and that was the end of it.
bad girls
Being the "easier child" means feeling inordinate amounts of guilt for the normal mistakes and hiccups of growing up.
suicide
My sister decided to kill herself in Spanish class. The decision was detached and absolute, like it got wired in from Moscow to a remote Soviet outpost.
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sisters
There’s also something daring about setting off to a new island or city and experiencing it with this safe circle of people who you trust with everything.
brain tumor
Sometimes I am sure of who you would be if you had lived. Sometimes I am not.
kids
Sometimes I want to throw them in a cage and just let them go at it until one of them emerges, victorious.
family
What's with the compulsion to make sisters into Spice Girls?
birth order
I can't help but think of Scarlett O'Hara's sister Suellen, without the whole husband-stealing part. “AND I’LL BE AN OLD MAIDDDDD!”
