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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Edith watching the kids playing in the cemetery related to the speech she gave Mary about accepting her apology, which is still haunting me.  Anyone else with sisters see this?  I have two and a very complicated relationship with the middle one, who I just don't understand at all.  Edith's speech about it being important to make up because someday in the future they would be all they had, the only people to remember Sybil, the only people to remember Granny and their parents, or what the "old days" were like.  Gosh, it's still making me tear up.  I wonder if Fellows' has siblings.  That sentiment rang so true for me.[/quote]

This notion rang true for me too. I have one sister and although we're quite close the idea that we may be the only ones left who remember everyone who came before us strikes me deep in the heart.

In general I found the scenes in this episode to be emotionally affecting. [/quote]

I cried.  And I'm not a cryer.

I have one sister. We don't really get along. I kind of want to ... but we are so different, and have fought tooth and nail since we were 12 ... now both nearing 40 and we still can't spend a weekend together without having it out. Edith's speech honestly made me think of all those things that only my sister and I will remember one day. The summers at our grandmother's farm ... the after school afternoons at the park ... the cousin that died when I was 20 ... nobody else will remember those people/places/times. Not the way we do. I've truly never thought of it in those terms before.  I still don't like her and can't imagine being friends with her ... which made me cry even more. I wish I had a sister I could be close to. For me, that is the saddest part of the Edith/Mary storyline. Even if they make up, they'll never really like each other. And I can't blame them ... at least, I can't blame Edith, because Mary really is a bitch.  But then, I'm the younger sister too, so maybe I'm biased. [/quote]

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