My sister and I spoke on the phone. It was a routine “how are you doing?” call, and during it she told me she loves me, and I replied I love her. She related how, when we were children, I’d asked her to draw designs on my cassette-tape cases. I lauded the drawings, which made her feel like she was an artist. Unbeknownst to me, that affirmation, those positive comments, affected her deeply—they made her feel good and worthwhile, and they still do she said, even as a sixty-year-old woman.
The words we say.
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