Wuthering Heights

Once upon a time in 1970, there was a young woman who left everyone who loved her behind in California and made her first stop in her world travels in Stony Brook, New York to earn her Masters Degree in English....

Forty plus years later her younger sister, wrote to the SUNY Stony Brook English Department and Special Collections Dept at the the Library and and after some research they found and sent her pdf’s of the older sister’s masters research paper. During that year when the older sister was thousands of miles away, the two sisters wrote many letters back and forth. The older sister tried to encourage the younger in her A.P. English class when she read Wuthering Heights and then wrote a paper on it. 

The younger sister did not know the older one was writing her own Wuthering Heights paper; “Emily Bronte: Completeness of Perception in a Fragmented Age, A Study of Wuthering Heights.” 

Oh, the younger sister always knew that the masters research paper was "on one of the Brontes" but when she received the email with the pdf of the masters paper, she really lost it and could barely breathe. 

The Sisters

Of course, all who knew the older sister, know that writing about Emily Bronte was not the only thing the older sister was doing during that year. After that year she went on to further and farther travels spending time in Oakland, Berkeley, Detroit, Paris and other European cities, Moscow, and finally appearing to settle in New York. For a few years the two sisters finally lived a mere 4 hours apart and were able to visit each other instead of writing letters. 

Then the older sister had cancer and left for good on February 6, 2001 and the broken hearts she left behind this time were too numerous to count and too shattered to heal smoothly.

The older sister did not believe in an after-life but every now and then something comes along and we get to feel the older sister with us again. The sight of the pages the older sister typed herself made the younger sister feel like she had just received another letter from her older sister.

Until we meet again. 

With love from the younger sister. 

February 6, 2013