I still tell people that.

I remember a birthday party from a long time ago, we must have been 8 or so. It was one of those birthdays when the weather was actually warm enough in April to go outside..king of like this year. Being that out birthdays were so close together, we were treated like twins when it came to the gifts we got from family and friends, I still tell people that. At the time I think I remember thinking that was pretty cool. I mean we both have sisters, but to have someone to share that day with, espeically someone you got along with so great is even better...like having a twin, I still tell people that. At this birthday party we got these twirling dance ribbons. You remember? The kind that have a long white plastic stick with a 10 foot silky ribbon tied to the end? The kind that they use in dance gymnastics on the olympics. Once of us got a blue one and one of us got a pink one. I want to say mine was the blue one, but I don't remember for sure. We danced around your parents yard for hours with those things, around the shed, around the pile of lyme, around the house. I can see those two little ladies, dancing around, one with bright red hair and the other with almost white blonde. You were always taller, but that was OK, because I was older by two days. That made things even...I still tell people that. At another birthday we got a Cabbage Patch toy, think we had a fight over those for some reason, but I can't remember why. I think that was the same year we went out to a lake, and went on those paddle boat things, we got in a fight there too, but that was because I was jealous...I wasn't with you...I still tell people that. We've spent so much of our lives together, like twins, it's an amazing thing that we got to share that nobody else has. I carry a picture of us at the age of a few months, laying on a pool table after our baptism, with our moms standing behind us...we were even baptized together...I still tell people that. I miss you on days like these when you should be celebrating your birthday with me and me with you, that you should have been there on Saturday when we had a tattoo party, you would have love it. I have my tattoo, it's designed with you in mind...I still tell people that. I hope you are happy in heaven, I hope I get to see you again...I still tell people that. I miss you in my life and I still want you back..I still tell people that. I hope you can see that, feel it, know it, because someday when we meet again, you'll know that twins are always together...when you left us, I felt it, I knew it. I still tell people that. Love always.