I just got off the phone with my sister (one and only sister)

[spedbug]

who lives in Australia and who is one of the few of my siblings I really feel connected to.
I love talking to her and catching up but, afterward, I'm always left feeling a bit melancholy.

I miss her. I miss my niece and nephew and my lovely BIL, too. When you love someone a lot the miles that part you seem longer.

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[genevalove.livejournal.com]

It really is hard. I have a baby niece and nephew back home in the U.S. and sometimes it just kills me that I don't even know them. I can't wait until someone finally invents the beaming thingie from Star Trek--there are times when it would really come in handy.

[spedbug.livejournal.com]

WOuldn't that be lovely to just *pop* in and out? It's hard not having our children grow up together but, at least, they love each other very much and thoroughly enjoy the limited times they've spent together.