11 years today, 17/5/2022
My sister, time does not heal, but it helps to go on with you beside me in my mind, I grasp at memories of things we did together, like putting on your mascara, and rubbing off your foundation cos you always put too much on! The smell of your favourite perfume, Jean Paul Gaultier, or Paris by YSL, or Alien, you used to use so much perfume I think a bottle only lasted a week! I hold on to these small things, these snippets of you, although there was so much more to you and not enough words to explain what a good person you were, funny kind and tough. The best of all of us. And I will never know anyone like you again, nor would I want to. So brave, sis, you are my guiding light, when I think I’m going thru a tough time I think of what you went thru, and it always makes me what to be better, do better, and not complain about my lot in life. My love for you as a sister will never die, and I’m happy about that.
Today I took a walk and listened you to some songs that reminded me of you, it felt lovely to look around the beautiful scene around me and imagine that you are part of it, part of the wonder and beauty of the world. I see you everywhere, I love you Rebecca my sister always xxxx
This candle was first lit on the 17th of May 2022 and will burn for 98 years and 11 days.