holidays
You can always depend on me to write during the holidays. This year's "discovery" was how strange it was to meet my siblings as adults. We spent SOOOOO much time together as children, but then when we left, we really left. At least I did. I guess my older brother stuck around, but he got married and had kids immediately. I moved three hours away. My younger brother joined the military. That left my little sister still at home. I go back for the holidays. I see people I recognize but I'm not sure I know them. The older seems to have changed religions since last I knew, but I didn't ask. The younger brother is married, has dogs, and isn't active military any more. Seems I missed an entire chapter of that story. The youngest is fifteen and now she is quiet and hyper aware of personal space. Being a new development, I don't know if these changes are a result of age, personality, or anxiety. And there I am, married, only pseudo-religious,...