Linda

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In August my sister Linda will have been gone for 5 years. In some ways it is starting to feel longer than 5 years.

Karen played a recording Linda left for her on her answering machine a month before she passed away. She was singing happy birthday, but she started coughing in the middle of it and she said she ruined it. It was hard to hear.

Linda was this amazing person. You know how there are a few people in your life that really think well of you? I don't mean love you. I have a lot of people that love me. This was something more special. Linda really liked me. She liked me and accepted me for who I am. More than that, She thought highly of me. I still have that in my friend, Luellen, but I miss it in Linda. The older I get, the more I understand how rare it is to have someone that honestly knows you, your faults and strengths and still thinks the world of you. Maybe it is just me. If I only have that in Luellen, then maybe there is not that much to like about me.

All I know is I miss it a lot right now. I miss my sister.