My Sister, Debbie

It's said that your siblings know you better than anyone, because they are with you from the beginning to the end.  That is certainly true of you,  my sister, Debbie.  I was two and a half when you were born.  There's no one that I have played with, cleaned the house with or fought with more fiercely.

Debbie and Me

We didn't live in a neighborhood, so most of the time we only had each other to play with or the younger siblings to pick on.

Seems we were always side by side.

Me and Debbie in a rare Louisiana snow.

You were by my side through my life's disappointments; sometimes rolling your eyes and smirking.

 

 As evident in this picture, when you got the pretty doll with the "real" curly hair and I got the ugly one with some kind of sculptured painted on hair.

Pictures also show we spent a lot of our time with our hair rolled up in bobby pins.  We know the pain of sitting at Mother's feet while she rolled our hair every night.  Then the next morning, making Mom angry and getting bopped in the head with the hairbrush.

It was always my job to wash the dishes and yours to dry them.  We would sing every song we knew and then start making up songs about our younger sister, Lenora, until she starting screaming and Mother or Dad would tell us we couldn't sing any more.  We loved the Gabor sisters.  I was Zsa Zsa. You were Eva. And we told Lenora she was Moo Moo Gabor.  That really made her scream.  Until I looked for this picture, I didn't realize there was a third Gabor sister; of course not named Moo Moo.

But of course, you often turned the teasing on me.  I lost a couple of potential boyfriends due to information you gained reading my diary.  You still love to tell the story of putting the water hose through the bathroom window and ruining my hair while I was primping for a date.  In those days we didn't have blow driers or curling irons, so curling one's hair for a date was an all day affair.

But as others come and go in my life; I know that you were born to ALWAYS be right there by my side and I by yours.

Happy Birthday beloved sister and may we share many more.