Murdered! I thought a car accident was traumatic, the suddenness of it, but murder...that must have been unimaginably difficult for you and your family.

And now two more sisters, I'm sorry, that has to be so hard. Were they ill, or was it unexpected? The past 18 months there has been a lot of unexpected loss among the people I know. And not among a predicted demographic, seems one shock after another.

That's very interesting. The first couple of years in particular I had many dreams of her that she didn't speak in. Along with other supernatural things that occurred in waking life. I plan to write a story about that time period sometime soon.

Your poor mom. Hard enough to lose siblings, but outliving children is terrible :(