They said she'd become my most reliable friend

I've encountered a lot of things over recent years that have caused me to realize more often than ever how deeply I miss my sister.  They include "siblings' day" postings on FB, friends who have also lost a sibling, reconnecting with old friends who ask me about her, brief pangs of jealousy as my wife gets to be with her sisters and brothers, even an article about Karen and Richard Carpenter - since his Karen died just a few years before mine; there is such a wide variety of reminders, seemingly everywhere I turn.

While our relationship was never as screwed up as Dora and Sven's, today's QC nearly made me cry in my cube.