
Who are your current most favorite people?
My three younger sisters have dared me to do all sorts of crazy stuff. I pierced my ears twice and got a tattoo because I didn’t want to be the lame one. My ears are closed now, and my sisters and my doctor are the only people who ever see my tattoo.
I text my sisters often, but texting isn’t talking. I am genuinely terrified of losing them. A hug emoji does not feed the soul like the warmth of a sister’s hug.
When we were young, the four of us dreamed of buying houses on the same block so we could throw parties together or stay up all night talking and walk home after doughnuts and coffee. When I was a child, I sometimes wished one of them would disappear. Our sister bond is too strong, too deep, has gone on too long, and is too high-built in love to break. We are pieces of the same puzzle. Without one of us, there would be a huge hole in all our lives.