StoryCorps Shorts: Then and Now
Special | 2m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
Janaki and her big sister Melissa talk about how they really feel about each other.
Sisters Janaki Symon and Melissa Wilbur grew up in New York and settled across the country from each other as adults. The StoryCorps MobileBooth was in town when Melissa was visiting her sister, and Janaki invited her to sit down and talk about their relationship.
Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and the...
StoryCorps Shorts: Then and Now
Special | 2m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
Sisters Janaki Symon and Melissa Wilbur grew up in New York and settled across the country from each other as adults. The StoryCorps MobileBooth was in town when Melissa was visiting her sister, and Janaki invited her to sit down and talk about their relationship.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪♪ -How did you view me when we were children?
-I never particularly liked you.
I was highly jealous of you.
No matter how bad you were or how much trouble you put our parents through, they still always talked about you.
You were the one they were proud of, and I resented that.
What about you?
-Well, I just hated you.
There wasn't anything about you that I could stand.
You actually were able to do things that I couldn't do.
You did well in school.
Teachers liked you.
You would poke me, and I remember stabbing you with a fork.
We would go to bed at night, and you would want the door open, and I would need the door closed, and I just -- I just hated you.
-How did we come from this hate to where we are now?
Because I can't even picture myself without you.
-After Mommy and Daddy died, I was planning to make amends to you, and I couldn't do it.
I wanted to with all my heart, and I just couldn't do it.
I didn't quite know how.
But I remember exactly the moment that I fell in love with you.
You put your arm around me, and you gave me this spontaneous hug and kiss, and I went, "Oh, my God!"
It was as if the last barrier between us was gone.
-Something in each of us didn't want to give up on our relationship.
And I'm so grateful because I have a sister who I really adore, and I am one of the luckiest people I know.
I love you.
-I love you, too.
And I'm very, very glad that you are my sister.
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Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and the...