Shively published a video of the conversation on TikTok for family members to see. “There’s no way I’m going to say goodbye to you.” Shirley, for her part, said: “Don’t say goodbye!” “We had a wonderful, wonderful life,” Barbara said to Shirley. On the night before her return to New Hampshire, Barbara spoke to Shirley as her granddaughter recorded.
“They waited so long to see each other and if you don’t know if you’re going to see someone again – you know, especially siblings – it must be really hard,” Shively remarked. Shively accompanied Barbara on the trip and filmed the sisters’ goodbye.
The sisters’ conversation was emblematic of the uncertainty that loved ones who live long distances from each other face whenever opportunities to spend time together reach an end.Īs her relatives told it to the New Hampshire ABC affiliate WMUR, Barbara had not seen her sister Shirley since 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, which was particularly risky for elderly people.īarbara recently decided to travel more than 2,700 miles from her home in Seabrook, New Hampshire, to visit Shirley in Nevada after telling herself, “I really think this will be the last time I see my sister,” her granddaughter Stephanie Shively told WMUR. Barbara, sobbing, replied: “You betcha – you betcha.”
0 kommentar(er)
