The Art of Business

Older Sister

Clearing out the spare room for her older sister Susan to stay in while she recuperated from a terrible auto accident, upset Lanea. Not that taking care of her older sister bothered her, that part she knew how to do well, Lanea being a Hospice nurse, it was that Lanea hardly knew her older sister. Susan was 14 years older than Lanea and basically, because she was so much older, didn’t participate at all in her life. By the time Lanea was 7, Susan moved out of the house and travelled around the world with her young husbands parents. About, the only time Lanea heard from her estranged older sister was when she received a postcard with a picture from some Mumbai Hotels lobby. All the postcard said was, ‘Love you Sissy’.

So, here she is making room for someone that she desperately wanted to know and love as she grew up, but someone who didn’t give a damn about her much younger sister; didn’t even acknowledge that she had a younger sister. Lanea received a phone call from a social worker at a hospital saying that Susan was involved in an auto accident that paralyzed her from the neck down. The hospital staff said the only information on her was a folded piece of paper that had Lanea’s name, phone number and address written on it; they didn’t even know how she was until Lanea went down to the emergency room.

After months of rehabilitation, Lanea found out that her sister was destitute and homeless. The auto accident was not her sister driving, but her sister getting hit when she was crossing the road drunk. So, as Lanea continued to make room for older sister Susan and preparing her home to handle the needs of a quadriplegic, Lanae smiled and thought to herself, she now gets an opportunity to love her older sister the way she always wanted to do.

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