Nice of you to say so! The three of us are lucky to be so much alike. (My best friend says we're like a family of cats sleeping in a big pile.) I mean, if I'd had an extroverted, social, sports-loving kid, I would have loved her, but we wouldn't have had all the easiness that comes of being on the same wavelength.

One of the things I treasure most is the Mother's Day card she made me when she was in fourth grade. The teacher told the kids to write something nice about their mother figures. So she came home with a card that said, "My mother took me to two libraries after lights-out because she knew I needed the next Harry Potter book. We understand each other."