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electric_blue68

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6. I get it. With my mom it was often Scrabble....

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Thu Apr 17, 2025, 01:45 AM

Apr 17

Last edited Thu Apr 17, 2025, 02:27 AM - Edit history (1)

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!