By the same measure, my younger sister would never stay in a dorm, but loves hostels.

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Two years ago, my younger sister Ruthie, a teacher in the local school, was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

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The day before had been my twenty-fifth birthday, and no one had remembered, not even Ginnie, my own sister, my Irish twin, eleven months younger than I.

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