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Anne-Marie C's avatar

Ohhh, I love this so much, Noha, you brought tears to my eyes. I just got to spend a weekend with my sister and our high school friends at my sister’s house many states away from mine, and we laughed soooo much. I miss the times when we shared a room and talked and talked before bed. Someday we hope to take a sister trip (that we’re just planning, like your cross-town walk but hasn’t been years of it, just early days!). I hope we’ll do it. Much love to you and Z and all the odes to sisterhood. ❤️

Noha Beshir's avatar

OMG I love that for you! We’ve done a couple of those (sister’s weekends, trips where we went to visit each other. Last winter, three of us went away for 5 days and it was the first time we’d ever taken a fully sisters-only trip in our lives!)

I’m so glad you had the best time.

Anne-Marie C's avatar

Oh wow, yay for the fully sisters-only trip!!!! And how crazy that it’s so rare! Happy you did that together. I love love love hearing about your closeness. Thank you!

Laura Chandler's avatar

My sister. She passed away in 2001. I still think about all the things we did, all the things we were going to do, and all the things we never did. 25 years of a part of my heart missing.

Noha Beshir's avatar

Oh Laura I’m so sorry you didn’t get more time with her.

Negar Kamali's avatar

I miss my cousin Parisa, because she's more like a big sister, confidante and friend than a cousin for me (we're both born in 1991, and she's only nine months older than me). She's been living in Salzburg for the past nearly two years, and she's one of the reasons I've started learning German since the past two years.

Noha Beshir's avatar

I love that you have her… I’m sorry you miss her.

Ambata Kazi's avatar

This is lovely. Funny, I have an older sister whose name starts with a Z. We're three years apart and were inseparable as kids and still very close. Lots of good memories alhamdulillah.

Noha Beshir's avatar

Awww that’s so sweet. My sister’s name doesn’t actually start with a Z but it’s become my “code name” for her because she didn’t want her real name used when I write about her on the internet. I let all my sisters choose if they wanted their real names or to choose names and she chose one that sounds nothing like her real name lol.

Always, alhamdulillah.

Ambata Kazi's avatar

That's so funny!

Noha Beshir's avatar

I think she said something to the effect of “I’ve always wanted to be named Zeinab” 😂

Rona Maynard's avatar

Beautiful, Noha.

Noha Beshir's avatar

Thank you, Rona.

Isabel Cowles Murphy's avatar

oh my gosh the spirit of girls. it's such a living thing. we had different childhoods, but somehow... we have the same memories?