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[devoutish]

Yeah?

[That's it, that's all you get.]

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[nursetemple]

My sister's younger too. She's the golden child.

[devoutish]

The one who kept going to church?

[nursetemple]

Yeah. And got married, had a kid before she was 30. Did everything right.

[devoutish]

How much younger is she?

[nursetemple]

3 years. She's 31. I love her to bits.

[devoutish]

Do you see her often? Is she in your city?

[nursetemple]

She lives in Brooklyn. We try to catch up regularly, but lately, things have been...complicated for me, and we didn't get to as much.

What about you? You see your sister often?

[devoutish]

[Alfie has a vague awareness of Brooklyn being a neighborhood of New York City, but that's about it.]

She lives in Camden Town, yeah. A few blocks from me, with her husband and kids.

[nursetemple]

Do you play the role of doting uncle? Let her kids braid your beard?

[devoutish]

My beard isn't long enough.

[nursetemple]

Well, gotta work on that, then.

[devoutish]

You cut it; you're working against it.

[nursetemple]

Damn, I'm never going to forgive myself, now that I know. I'm never grooming you ever again.

[There's an obvious smile in her voice.]

[devoutish]

What's your memory that makes you smile, then? It's your turn to share.

[nursetemple]

Hmm.

[She takes her time to think about it, going through relationships and family times.]

The last Christmas before my grandpa died. I was still little, but I remember sitting on his lap reading Alice In Wonderland in his old, creaky house in upstate New York. There was a fire on and we were snuggled under a blanket, and it was just. Kinda perfect.

[devoutish]

Mm.

[That's definitely a good memory.]

Winters were better when we had fires, weren't they.

[nursetemple]

[A small chuckle, although it sounds a little sad.]

Hm, definitely. A lot easier to deal with the cold if it's not... permanent.

[devoutish]

I used to like the winter. Can you believe that? I don't think I ever will again.

[nursetemple]

No, I get that. So did I. Winter in New York is really nice. But I'm so tired of the snow, now, I don't know if I'll ever find it magical ever again.

[devoutish]

Do you get much snow there? I've never been.

[nursetemple]

More so in the early months of the year than at Christmas generally, but yeah, we do, more or less every year. What about London?

[devoutish]

Less than in the countryside. It doesn't accumulate very much in the city, and it fast turns muddy and grey.

[nursetemple]

Upstate is definitely nicer for proper snow.

[She sighs.]

At least, the snow here is beautiful. If it wasn't so deadly...

[devoutish]

Hard to notice any beauty when it's inescapable.

[nursetemple]

Oscar Wilde would probably disagree with you.