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There's a quote that says Blood is thicker than Water but I strongly believe that Love is thicker and stronger than Blood.
Last week I lost a dear friend and an amazing sister. We raised our children together. We were each other's listening ear and shoulder to cry on. We shared so many dreams—some we realized but many were still on our bucket list to do together. We thought we had at least another fifteen years to empty that bucket, but in the blink of an eye, she departed on her last voyage without even a goodbye.
We met twenty-five years ago as young women. We didn't grow up together, we didn't speak the same first-language, and we weren't sister at birth.
Not all families share the same blood, and not all blood-family are worthy of the term family. One has no say in which family one is born, but one can choose which family one can love and trust.
She was more than a friend, more than a sister. She was my chosen-sister. I loved her and I knew I would miss her one day in the far, far future. I never expected that it would happen now—and that she would leave such a giant hole inside my chest.
So, here's the one last thing she taught me: Don't take tomorrow for granted.
Hugs!
JS
So sorry for your loss, J.S. Thanks for sharing.
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