Apologies for assuming you were a guy! I suppose I am guilty of thinking everyone on the internet is a guy to some extent... stupid and not even remotely accurate but there it is.

That is an awesome sacrifice your sister made. Even though you’re a stranger it’s still heart warming to know there are such good daughters(children in general) out there. Not that I didn’t think there were but I guess I rarely have the pleasure of hearing about it in my day to day ya know.

I definitely know what you mean about your grandparents. I have some regrets on that front, though I can’t blame myself as my grandparents weren’t the easiest to be close to. My dads moved away right after I was born, the opposite coast from us so it was extremely hard/expensive to see them. I always looked up to my grandfather (Papa Bear lol) so much, he was successful and just so cool. But right when I got to the age where I was really getting to know him he passed. Sucks. And my moms family is just a little crazy to be honest and she fights with them so much and always has so I’ll go years without seeing them sadly.

All that makes it more important to me to be close to my parents. Haven’t really had the closest family over the years so what I do have I keep close. Even my older sister ran off to college and never came back. Now she’s in Italy, and moving to Japan next year. It’s sad but at this point I barely know her. I was young when she left and now I only see her once a year and talk on holidays. Thankfully my brother and I are still close, but even he is a long way off as far as visiting.

Kinda makes sense writing all this out why I would want to stay close to my parents. And no, I’m glad we went off topic. It’s nice to talk about real shit with people, even if it’s anonymously online haha. It’s a pleasure really.