Dear Anita,

I hear your voice in my head, not my mother’s voice, I hear your’s (or at least the words)

OH Cali Chica, for crying out loud! Keep your sister out of it! How many times have we gone over what works and doesn’t work.  Clearly spending time with your sister right now is not allowing you to sink in and be un-triggered. So Don’t!

I hear these words and smile, I sink into it – good, no excellent, wisdom (not that you have said them to me, it is imagined of course) from our countless meaningful interactions.