sisterly love

i mentioned sammie tonight while talking to my mom. i told her how sammie had made a surprise visit to boston this week, and that we had met her out for dinner in cambridge. the crazy thing was alissa was also down visiting. it was the first time our families had met, and how fitting that it was our sisters who were there to kick off family time. while i spoke of dinner, i couldn't help but note the relationship sarah has with sam, and how incredibly different it is from the relationship i have with my george. there is a weird sort of competition between sam and sarah. sarah and sam kinda like to piss eachother off, even though both would deny this viemently. (mom found likeness to the relationship jonah and i have... the whole pissing eachother off piece), but there is one thing that jonah and i will never have... sisterly love. sarah and sam love eachother dearly and think of eachother often. they know the ins and outs of eachother like no other person could... even me, even a boyfriend, or a best friend.

I wished for a sister when throwing pennies in fountains and when wishing on that first star. i offered to trade in jonah, often... a sister is all i wanted for xmas, and my birthday, and then one year, when i was 11, i got one!! alissa is that to me, a gift. she can do no wrong and knows it ; )
so i realize that no matter the manifestation of the sister bond, it remains that, A BOND. tied together as if in a three-legged race, for the remainder of our lives. thank goodness for sisters.