Sisters

“We shared a first breath and every birthday that has come since. Nobody else has been there for every single day of my life. Only you.”

“People have been getting the two of us mixed up since before we could correct them. Not one of them noticed we are not remotely the same person, and I did.”

“We spent a decade driving each other completely up the wall over nothing. And none of it left a mark, which is the part I find myself thinking about.”

“You went through every single thing first and then came back and warned me. You made all the obvious mistakes so that I only had to make the new ones.”

“We grew up sharing a roof, a last name, and every secret worth keeping. Now we share a whole lifetime, and I would pick you as my sister twice.”

“We have had the same argument about the same thing for years. Neither of us has budged an inch and neither of us has ever actually left.”

“There is one person alive who remembers the same kitchen that I do. Nobody else will ever get the joke, and that is rather the point of it.”

“You went first through all of it and you had nobody ahead of you to ask. By the time I got there you had already worked out which parts were survivable.”