My Best Friend

40 years and one day ago, I was blessed with the best gift a girl can have, one little sister. As I am only two years, two weeks and two days older, I really do not remember life without her in it. We have shared a room, toys, a record player which we pooled our money to buy, dolls and lots of laughs. We have shared schools, friends, clothes, shoes and money. We have shared a tan Volare station wagon, a yellow Buick Skylark and a Blue Ford Explorer (the old kind). We have shared joys, sorrows, problems and solutions. We went to the same high school, same college and pledged the same sorority.

When she went to England to complete a Master's Degree, I cried for days. I looked forward to the one hour once a week when we could talk on the phone. We talk on the phone and email many times each day now. She loves my children with a love usually attributed to grandmothers. They are crazy about her!!

Happy Birthday to the best little sister a girl could have!! I love you from the ends of the earth and back again.