TODAY IS A TERRIBLE BLACK DAY FOR ME. I'M CHOKED UP.
I've just had a phone call from my elder sister, Theresa, whom I have mentioned before. My youngers sister, Tillie, has been ill for some time, and now she's been told that she has about two months to live. I'm stunned. I don't know what to say to my family, what to think even. Like the death of one's child, it just doesn't seem right that that younger sister, to whom you were a big brother when you were children, should die before you. She lives in England of course, so we haven't met much in... Sign in to see full entry.