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Lily,
I don’t understand what you evan see in Sevrus. He calls me names. He says I’m dirty. You just like him becuse he says your special.
-Tuney
Lily,
I know your better than me. I know you’re pretty. I know your special. I know you are loved and I’m not.
But you don’t have to rub it in. You can be so mean sometimes.
-Petunia
Lily,
I wish I had a different sister.
-Petunia
Lily,
Isn’t it funny that our parents never even look at me when you’re at home?
Lily, half of me wants you to stay home with me all the time, and the other half never wants to see you again.
They love you so much.
-Petunia
Lily,
Sometimes I’m full of so much rage that it hurts. I can’t think. I say things I don’t mean. I push everyone away.
I push you away
Lily, even my flower means anger. It’s like our parents knew.
-Petunia
Lily,
I wish I wasn’t born in this family. Lily, sometimes I wish I was never born at all.
-Petunia
Lily,
Daisy kissed me today. I cried when the shock wore off.
I liked it
Dad would hate me so much more if he
-Petunia
Lily,
I can hear you crying at night, through the walls. Why are you so scared?
I want to help you
I still love you
-Petunia
Lily,
I know you don’t like him. You think he’s rude and boring and loud, and maybe he is. I don’t know.
He scares me sometimes, too. But he loves me, I think. He needs me. And I need to be needed.
I miss Daisy
I wish I wasn’t
-Petunia
Lily,
Our parents are dead.
Mother’s neck was broken, and she is covered in so many cuts…
Dad’s veins are bulging and black.
I don’t know how I’m going to tell you.
I can’t stop staring at the bodies
-Petunia
Lily,
I know I am not a good sister. I’m sorry. I don’t know if I can be what you need me to be.
Everything I say tastes bad when I say it, but I can’t apologize. I can’t even look you in the eye.
You are humiliating to care about, you know.
-Petunia
Lily,
You’re my sister, but you don’t feel like it. I don’t think I know you at all.
-Petunia
(1981)
Lily-bug,
I miss you.
-Tuney
Lily,
He has your eyes.
-Petunia
Lily-bug,
Come back. I’m sorry.
-Tuney
Lily,
They didn’t even let me bury you.
-Petunia