There is something infinitely reassuring when someone has known you all your life, knows your deepest, darkest secrets, and still likes you. Now I am not talking love you ....like you. There is a serious difference between the two things. One is a choice and the other pretty much an obligation if you're a Southern girl. Southern Girls Love their families!
So here's to my sister who is always always there for me! We have not always been friends and still are miles away from each other politically but our hearts, well they are really close. And as we grow more comfortable in this adult relationship we find there is more we agree on than disagree and are more a like than not a like. Her version of our parents sounds to me like the folks that lived down the street from us. But at the same time she swears she never knew the folks I describe as our parents. Gone are the days we cannot see any family resemblance. Don't we all age into our parents?
I will never forget sitting in the swing on the front porch playing the Montgomery Wards Catalog Game where we divided up the pages and picked our favorite items. I will never forget the pure pleasure she shared about putting salted peanuts in an RC Cola or M&M's in your popcorn at the movies. It was nothing less than momentous when she passed the family Christmas job of working at Uncle Richard's Luggage Shop in Tallahassee down to me. That alone endowed semi adulthood upon me. Probably, the best leap of trust was when she started college and got her very own VW Beetle. I can not tell you how many times she would loan it to me....she was way too trusting and still is. But I guess that is part of that sister thing.... Thanks for being such a great sister Sandra Kay!
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