10 years on, I miss mine too.

Cribbage is my favorite fun and challenging card game.

Spent lots of time playing against other sailors in times long gone by.

I'd lose it at Cribbage. Eventually. I played him even.

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She'd beat me about 2/3rds of the time.

I had the bigger vocabulary, but she'd been doing crossword puzzles for a pretty long so she could "see" spots on the playing for potential words better than me.


Oh, I miss her. Been almost 17 yrs (gah).
The pain was so fierce the first yr or 2, eventually it lessened a lot. Now it's a rare more intense feeling, but mostly a wistful sadness.

And a lot of wonderful memories I share w my sister, and others!

It never really stops being an ache in your heart.

I just try to be grateful for the time I had with her, and be glad that she is still with me in my memories and heart.

My mother and I shared a love of Far Side cartoons. Now every time I see one, I cry.



❤️

I come from a family of cribbage players. True story: I only had a hand of 29 once in my life, but I never got to play it. Even worse, I was playing my mom and she counted first to go out, leaving me BEHIND the skunk line!!!

A very memorable evening, but for the wrong reasons. But I did enjoy playing cards with mom. She's been gone 13 years.