Sister, My Sister

by Lynda
(Massachusetts)

Sister, I miss you so very much - everyday I think of you. Sister, I thought we'd be together forever - I miss you. I thought you would always be by my side. I miss you. I don't know how my life will proceed without you by my side. All the things I would share with you, I can no longer. I miss you so much. I never thought you'd go away I needed you so much. You did not know how special you are or how much I needed you. Why did you go away - I miss you.

Stephanie, my only, younger sister, took her life on a sunny beautiful day on July 4th 2010 by overdosing on pills and hanging herself. I miss her so much. She struggled with depression as part if her bipolar illness and no longer could self-medicate to cope. She thought it was her way out I guess. Now we are all left to miss her, my two sons, her nephews, five and eight, her son, newly graduated from high school, our elderly mother and me - we miss her. We would have done anything for her but she didn't talk to us and let us know how bad it was for her. We would have done anything.