To realize the value of a sister/brother: Ask someone who doesn’t have one.

To realize the value of ten years: Ask a newly divorced couple.

To realize the value of four years: Ask a graduate.

To realize the value of one year: Ask a student who has failed a final exam.

To realize the value of nine months: Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.

To realize the value of one month: Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of one week: Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of one minute: Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize the value of one second: Ask a person who has survived an accident.

Time waits for no one.

Treasure every moment you have.

You will treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.

To realize the value of a friend or family member: LOSE ONE.

I did…on this date twenty-one years ago…my sister Cindy deposited her paycheck into the bank machine at 7:58pm on the 25th of May–approximately four-and-a-half hours after picking it up from work–and the last time her whereabouts were known before her body was found.

This post went up at 7:59pm on May 25th, 2010–by that time twenty-one years ago, Cindy had already vanished…with blood on the door handle of her vehicle…

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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