"I'm moving to California next summer, for two years!" She said.
I remember when my sister uttered these words to my family and I. It was August 2011, we had just got back from our very first family trip to California. We went there because my sister, Jade had gotten married to her childhood sweetheart. He is in the marine core, and is stationed at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California. Although, we wouldn't be living there like Jade would be in just one short year, we now had an amazing place to go and visit! We were all so happy for Jade and excited to be with her while she made this new transition in her life. It was like switching lifestyles for her. She was moving from Maine to California, and she was now going to be living alone with her "husband" on a military base. Wow, it was kinda crazy to think about! Her world was going to be so different but she, and we were all so thrilled that she would be experiencing so many new things like, getting a new job, decorating and living in her first house, and meeting many new friends. Everything was exhilarating for her, she was anxious and excited to begin her new life as a wife and a Californian. This was her journey.
Although Jade's journey in her new life was just beginning, my life as a twin and as a sister was going to change dramatically. It was going to be very different for me and I had to adapt to my new, sibling-less life. Don't get me wrong though, I was and am so happy for her! Now, I live vicariously through her experiences on the west coast and she lives through mine here at school. Learning to live without my sister here with me was my journey, and it was going to prove to be tough.
My daughter lives a few miles south of Pendleton, so I am well aware of how unlike Maine it is in every possible way, except that it has an ocean and people.
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Compare this to the debit card piece: that told a story; this tells about a life situation without any real narrative at all. Does that make sense?
I think the real story here is yours--your first long separation from your twin sister. But since that story has only a beginning right now and no ending, I can understand why you avoided trying to tell it.