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vanillafluffy

Opera, accents, tortes and lace

Mar 07, 2009 12:13

I just noticed that today is March 7th. Okay, so maybe that's kind of obvious, since yesterday was the 6th. However, the date resonates with me because that was the date my older brother got married. There was also an eclipse on that day, which our teacher made a big fuss about in our science class. Lots of warnings not to look directly at it, lest ( Read more... )

peter and suzanne, memoirs

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pwcorgigirl March 7 2009, 17:44:27 UTC

That's a lovely memory (well, aside from the dress shopping and the earache). Your brother has always sounded like such a wonderful person, and so does she.

vanillafluffy March 7 2009, 18:37:36 UTC

We're also both Virgos---her birthday is September 8th, mine's the 9th. So there were a few joint birthday parties---but that's a whole 'nother entry.

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vanillafluffy March 9 2009, 04:32:07 UTC

We talked during our last couple of interactions...because of the age difference---13 years---it took me being 30-something before we connected as adults, instead of me being "Peter's baby sister".

cbtreks March 8 2009, 23:54:56 UTC

What lovely memories of what sounds like a lovely person. I'm sorry your brother's gone - that memory, not so lovely, I'm sure. (And oh, I sympathize about all the shopping for a suitable dressy dress when you're a chubby girl. "Chubby sizes" - that's what they called them when I was young.)

vanillafluffy March 9 2009, 04:34:11 UTC

Chubby sizes...yes, exactly. And since this was the 60s, the skirts were rather abbreviated to begin with, and I've always been tall for my age, too. So width AND length were both problematic. And shoe shopping? Oy vey!

teresa_c March 9 2009, 00:20:35 UTC

Interesting. What happened to your brother, if I may ask?

vanillafluffy March 9 2009, 04:38:17 UTC

Congestive heart failure. He just didn't wake up one morning. It was exacerbated by a dreadful heatwave and the fact that he was living in a building that was NOT up to code, so he couldn't install A/C. (I went up there to settle things, and it was 100+ degrees the whole time I was there. It was like spending a week in a pizza oven.)

teresa_c March 9 2009, 15:48:38 UTC

Wow, how awful. I mean, as deaths go, dying painlessly in your sleep would be great, but his sounds so avoidable and he was so young. Arrrgh.

(When I say "avoidable," I don't mean he did anything wrong, just that ... circumstances could have so easily been different.)