Dec 24, 2006 18:04
My sister was beautiful, passionate, stubborn, intelligent, sporty, ambitious, and sarcastic. She was a wonderful ultimate frisbee player, an absolute card shark, great at witty banter, and a truly powerful individual. She got what she wanted but when you needed her, she was there. I remember nights she left her friends to come rushing home to me when I was sobbing. She was honest, sometimes brutally so, and she was questioning. We used to go on really long walks through the neighborhood together and just talk about life-- everything we had in front of us.
It seems so dumb that she would go the way she did-- right outside of our neighborhood, so close to being away from the traffic. Today has been the most surreal day of my life, and I think I only felt normal when Justin was here and we could just talk about it for a little while. There's so much food, there are so many arrangements to be made, there are so many phone calls, and my parents.. ah, my parents.
Claire was amazing, and I never stopped looking up to her.
The end.