We didn’t always get along, and you certainly couldn’t describe our relationship as close.<\/p>\n
Yet I feel a huge hole in my heart.<\/p>\n
She was my baby sister.<\/p>\n
She told me I abandoned her when I left home at age 16 (I was afraid of our father’s anger; and I made him angry).<\/p>\n
Sad.<\/p>\n
She’s about 5 in this picture taken at Echo Park in Los Angeles, CA around 1962. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My sister would have been 58 years old today. She died May 22, 2014. We didn’t always get along, and you certainly couldn’t describe our relationship as close. Yet I feel a huge hole in my heart. She was my …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-personal-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Regina-EchoParkLake-good\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shawnna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Regina-EchoParkLake-good.jpg?resize=940%2C734&ssl=1\")
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