totally off any reasonable topic--typing out loud again

[Guest guest]

I have often typed anecdotes about my family,

including one of my brothers who was born deaf,

and is a retired physicist, and my eledest sister

by 14.5 years to the day.

I was watching a trailer on TV for the re-run of the

film, The Starter Wife, and suddenly it hit me.

My eldest sister was a "dead ringer" for Debra

Messing--especially the face--they say we each

have a double somewhere. Even the film is sort

of about my sister: three marriages, although my

sister had seven children in all.

So, between looking at my photo in the photo

section and Debra Messing in The Starter Wife,

you have some idea of how two of us in our huge

family look. No wonder my sister, Jane, now deceased,

always thought that she had been adopted. Definitely

ours, however. Definitely.

I cannot find one other manic-depressive personality

in our whole family, and we do have a few odd ones,

but only Jane was manic by day and depressed at

night--slept about three hours per night. In a family

in which most everyone lives to about 100, Jane managed

to survive: diabetes, cancer, some kind of bowel disease,

two heart attacks and total neglect of said diabetes, to

drop at 78.

However, I still miss her truly wild phone calls to me.

Life seems oddly dull without her. And I love her kids.

Love to each of you, especially those who have lost

beloved family members.

Off to bed,

n (it's 11:34 p.m. here)