<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Alison Messersmith</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amessersmith@hotmail.com">amessersmith@hotmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:50 PM<br>Subject: FW: Beautiful!!!! SISTER'S<br>To: andrea unck <<a href="mailto:abunck@hotmail.com">abunck@hotmail.com</a>>, christina bennet <<a href="mailto:thebennettfamily11@msn.com">thebennettfamily11@msn.com</a>>, jess graham <<a href="mailto:sagesse1111@hotmail.com">sagesse1111@hotmail.com</a>>, kris guay <<a href="mailto:kidherder@yahoo.com">kidherder@yahoo.com</a>>, kee <<a href="mailto:keeshastrong@gmail.com">keeshastrong@gmail.com</a>>, lyndsay <<a href="mailto:lyndsayhart2002@yahoo.com">lyndsayhart2002@yahoo.com</a>>, mara gearman <<a href="mailto:maragvla@yahoo.com">maragvla@yahoo.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:nicholekristensen@gmail.com">nicholekristensen@gmail.com</a>, Tanya bottarini <<a href="mailto:tanya.bottarini@gmail.com">tanya.bottarini@gmail.com</a>>, trenikah <<a href="mailto:townsendbarneslicorish@yahoo.com">townsendbarneslicorish@yahoo.com</a>><br>
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<br> Don't usually forward, but this one is good. Love you all and thanks for being part of my life!<br><div><div></div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:lgorseth@comcast.net" target="_blank">lgorseth@comcast.net</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:lgorseth@comcast.net" target="_blank">lgorseth@comcast.net</a><br>
Subject: FW: Fwd: Beautiful!!!! SISTER'S<br>Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:00:36 -0800<br><br>
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young wife sat on a sofa on a hot humid day,<br>
Drinking iced tea and visiting with her mother. As<br>
<br>
They talked about life, about marriage, about the<br>
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Responsibilities of life and the obligations of<br>
<br>
Adulthood, the mother clinked the ice cubes in her<br>
<br>
Glass thoughtfully and turned a clear, sober glance<br>
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Upon her daughter.<br>
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<br>
'Don't forget your sisters,' she advised, swirling<br>
<br>
The tea leaves to the bottom of her glass. 'They'll<br>
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Be more important as you get older. No matter how<br>
<br>
Much you love your husband, no matter how much you<br>
<br>
Love the children you may have, you are still going<br>
<br>
To need sisters. Remember to go places with them now<br>
<br>
And then; do things with them.'<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
'Remember that 'sisters' means ALL the women.<br>
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Your girlfriends, your daughters, and all your other<br>
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Women relatives too. 'You'll need other women. Women<br>
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Always do.'<br>
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<br>
<br>
What a funny piece of advice!' the young woman<br>
<br>
Thought. Haven't I just gotten married?<br>
<br>
Haven't I just joined the couple-world? I'm now a<br>
<br>
Married woman, for goodness sake! A grownup! Surely<br>
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My husband and the family we may start will be all I<br>
<br>
Need to make my life worthwhile!'<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
But she listened to her mother. She kept contact<br>
<br>
With her sisters and made more women friends each<br>
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Year. As the years tumbled by, one after another,<br>
<br>
She gradually came to understand that her mother really<br>
<br>
Knew what she was talking about. As time and nature<br>
<br>
Work their changes and their mysteries upon a woman,<br>
<br>
Sisters are the mainstays of her life.<br>
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<br>
<br>
After more than 50 years of living in this world,<br>
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Here is what I've learned:<br>
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<br>
<br>
THIS SAYS IT ALL:<br>
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Time passes.<br>
<br>
Life happens.<br>
<br>
Distance separates.<br>
<br>
Children grow up.<br>
<br>
Jobs come and go.<br>
<br>
Love waxes and wanes.<br>
<br>
Men don't do what they're supposed to do.<br>
<br>
Hearts break.<br>
<br>
Parents die.<br>
<br>
Colleagues forget favors.<br>
<br>
Careers end.<br>
<br>
BUT.........<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Sisters are there, no matter how much time and how<br>
<br>
Many miles are<br>
<br>
Between you. A girl friend is never farther away<br>
<br>
Than needing her can reach.<br>
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<br>
When you have to walk that lonesome valley and you<br>
<br>
Have to walk it by yourself, the women in your life<br>
<br>
Will be on the valley's rim, cheering you on,<br>
<br>
Praying for you, pulling for you, intervening on<br>
<br>
Your behalf, and waiting with open arms at the<br>
<br>
Valley's' end.<br>
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Sometimes, they will even break the rules and walk<br>
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Beside you....Or come in and carry you out.<br>
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<br>
<br>
Girlfriends, daughters, granddaughters,<br>
<br>
Daughters-in-law, sisters, sisters-in-law, Mothers,<br>
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Grandmothers, aunties, nieces, cousins, and extended<br>
<br>
Family: all bless our life!<br>
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The world wouldn't be the same without women, and<br>
<br>
Neither would I. When we began this adventure called<br>
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Womanhood, we had no idea of the incredible joys or<br>
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Sorrows that lay ahead. Nor did we know how much we<br>
<br>
Would need each other.<br>
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Every day, we need each other still. Pass this on<br>
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To all the women who help make your life meaningful.<br>
<br>
I just did. Short and very sweet:<br>
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There are more than twenty angels in this world..<br>
<br>
Ten are peacefully sleeping on clouds. Nine are<br>
<br>
Playing. And one is reading her email at this<br>
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Moment.<br>
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<br>
<br>
Send this message to ten of your friends including<br>
<br>
Me.. If you get 5 replies, someone you love will<br>
<br>
Surprise you.<br>
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Happy days!<br>
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Don't break this; it's working</span></p>
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