Speaker 1: It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. And if I've
Speaker 1: learned anything from watching the movie Frozen over and over,
Speaker 1: it's that sisters always get along.
Speaker 2: The sisters always have each other's back. Yeah, I love
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean that they always get along.
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe that's They might be a little annoying sometimes
Speaker 1: and accidentally cast a spell that sends the whole country
Speaker 1: into a violent, eternal winter that threatens to destroy everything.
Speaker 1: But you know what, for the most part, is zero drama.
Speaker 2: Seriously, sometimes she can be in a mood and I'm
Speaker 2: just like, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's normal, though strangely adult. It's not the
Speaker 1: case for one of our listeners named Amelia, who's reached
Speaker 1: out for a closure call, needing help with a little
Speaker 1: bit of her family drama. That's happen. Let's talk to her.
Speaker 1: Name is again, Amelia, Amelia, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Thank you, you're welcome. Do you have more than one
Speaker 3: sister or is it just you and her?
Speaker 4: It's just the two of us?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, what's awesome?
Speaker 1: What's going on with you and your sister? What made
Speaker 1: you reach out to us?
Speaker 4: Okay, this is a lot, but I'll give you the
Speaker 4: cliff notes. So I am traditionally super close with my family, Okay,
Speaker 4: close with my mom and dad. We all kind of
Speaker 4: live near each other. And like my little sister Carissa
Speaker 4: was like in the same boat.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you lived on a boat together. That's
Speaker 1: kind of cute.
Speaker 3: It's the tropical version of frozen.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, I know you're close with all of your family.
Speaker 1: That's nice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean sisters are how they are. I mean,
Speaker 4: like I'm not going to sit here and say that
Speaker 4: my sister and I didn't fight a lot about trivial things.
Speaker 2: But I was just talking about this with Alexus because
Speaker 2: she lives with twin sisters, and like the thing about
Speaker 2: sister fights is you can like literally feel like your
Speaker 2: blood is boiling and then twenty minutes later it's done
Speaker 2: and you over it and you move forward.
Speaker 4: Right, And that's always the case. I Mean, we had
Speaker 4: fights where like you would have thought we would kill
Speaker 4: each other before the fight ended. So it's volatile, but
Speaker 4: like it's not anything out of the ordinary.
Speaker 1: I worked, Okay, so there were a lot of little fights,
Speaker 1: but it sounds like it leads up to one big fight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So things have gone completely off the rails, and
Speaker 4: now I just have no idea what to do.
Speaker 3: So why what happened?
Speaker 4: Yeah, one night we were on our way out and
Speaker 4: like before we even went to the bar, I noticed
Speaker 4: that she was wearing my mom's jewelry with a necklace
Speaker 4: like a little pendant and this ring that I'm obsessed
Speaker 4: with that's like this pearl ring that's surrounded by a
Speaker 4: little tiny diamonds. It's adorable and you're.
Speaker 2: Always jockey and like, hey, Mom, you should really give
Speaker 2: that to me when you kick the bucket.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like I'm the oldest I wanted on these things.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: At my grandmother's house, we just put our names in
Speaker 2: masking tape on the stuff that we wanted.
Speaker 3: All my grandparents were still.
Speaker 1: A live yea god. Well, at least that gives you
Speaker 1: a little bit of perspective, Amelia, your situation could be worse.
Speaker 1: You could be brooksisters. So wait, how did she get
Speaker 1: the ring?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 4: So my mom does have quite a few pieces that
Speaker 4: are heirloom pieces, and she has given Carissa a few,
Speaker 4: and she's given me a few, and so we do
Speaker 4: have them, and like I have one that's really similar.
Speaker 4: But like my issue with it is like we're going
Speaker 4: out tonight, like to the bars. Like you can't throw
Speaker 4: on some cheap stuff from forever twenty one, like you
Speaker 4: have to wear Mom's like precious stuff. And so I
Speaker 4: just didn't think that was a good idea, and so
Speaker 4: I had a bad attitude. I accept that, and maybe
Speaker 4: that led to her drinking a little bit more heavily
Speaker 4: than she would have. Like, I've come to terms with that.
Speaker 1: Did something happen?
Speaker 4: Yes, so the ring is gone. She took it off
Speaker 4: to like wash her hands or something, and like, hey,
Speaker 4: good on you for washing your hands. I'll give you
Speaker 4: points for that, But like, why did you have the
Speaker 4: ring on in the first place if you are someone
Speaker 4: who takes them off to wash their hands. Yikes?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so how long ago was the ring lost?
Speaker 4: So this was over a year ago?
Speaker 1: A year I know?
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, I talked to us to talk to her.
Speaker 1: What's happened since that night with you and your sister?
Speaker 4: Absolutely nothing except she moved out of state. That's all
Speaker 4: I know. We have not spoken.
Speaker 1: Nothing, but she moved a thousand miles away so she
Speaker 1: would never have to see me.
Speaker 3: Wait, you guys aren't talking.
Speaker 4: No, we got into a huge fight, and like, granted
Speaker 4: I said some things that I should not have said.
Speaker 4: I was very angry, but like she was drunk and
Speaker 4: said some things too, Like we really got into it.
Speaker 4: And then about a month goes by, she moves out
Speaker 4: of state and that's it.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, did your parents know what happened? Do your
Speaker 2: parents know that she lost the ring and that was
Speaker 2: the start of all this?
Speaker 4: No, she won't talk to anybody, Like I know what happened.
Speaker 4: It's between us and you guys now. But like she
Speaker 4: literally just fell off the face of the planet.
Speaker 3: I mean, Okay, I get it.
Speaker 2: It's a huge deal, but it's not a big enough
Speaker 2: deal that you should break up your family over it.
Speaker 4: I agree you need to get.
Speaker 1: On the phone and apologize to you. I think Brooks
Speaker 1: saying that you should find a different sister to replace her, there's.
Speaker 2: A replaceable that makes me so sad for you, and
Speaker 2: I bet it would break your mom's heart. Like, of
Speaker 2: course your mom's going to be upset that the ring's gone,
Speaker 2: but she would be even more upset to know that
Speaker 2: her girls aren't talking.
Speaker 3: Because of it.
Speaker 1: That's why you reached out to our show to do
Speaker 1: this closure call. So we could try and help you
Speaker 1: get back in touch and maybe try mend some broken
Speaker 1: fences with your sister.
Speaker 2: Right, she moved exactly, and you haven't had any chance
Speaker 2: to apologize to her until now.
Speaker 4: Right, Because I mean I would have had she been
Speaker 4: able to return a text her call. But I don't
Speaker 4: want to, like, you know, dump on her via text
Speaker 4: and just be like, well I thought it, So I'm good,
Speaker 4: because like that's not helpful either.
Speaker 2: And forth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so do it the healthy way by going through
Speaker 1: a radio show. I like this. And so you've been
Speaker 1: working with our producer off of the air before we
Speaker 1: made this call to come up with the four questions
Speaker 1: that you wanted to send to your sister Clarissa and
Speaker 1: try and get some answers for her to help you
Speaker 1: get some closure and get you guys talking again. So
Speaker 1: we've sent those for you, and I will tell you
Speaker 1: Clarissa did respond back.
Speaker 3: Did Clarissa explain it all? Come on.
Speaker 1: Text?
Speaker 4: In?
Speaker 1: That was funny because it was I don't know what
Speaker 1: was said. I even't even read what she wrote. I
Speaker 1: don't haven't read the questions, I haven't read the answers.
Speaker 1: We're going to find all of this out for the
Speaker 1: first time when we come back. Jest, I hope not too.
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen when we do your closure call. Right
Speaker 1: after this, we're in the middle of a closure call
Speaker 1: with our listener Amelia. Just a quick recap of what's happened.
Speaker 1: She and her little sister have not spoken to each
Speaker 1: other and over a year after a big fight that
Speaker 1: they had when they went out to the bars one
Speaker 1: night and her sister drunkenly lost their mom's heirloom jewelry.
Speaker 1: Oh no, so that led to an argument. Some things
Speaker 1: were said that Amelia now regrets because the sister ended
Speaker 1: up moving away and nothing is worth losing a family
Speaker 1: member like that, which is why she's asked us to
Speaker 1: help her reach out back to her sister to get
Speaker 1: some answers.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine what you said.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, do you want to repeat some of
Speaker 1: those things right here on the radio, Amelia?
Speaker 4: I mean, I will say I said a lot of
Speaker 4: regretful things, but nothing that merits a year of silence,
Speaker 4: Like I'll say that.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 3: See if she says the same thing.
Speaker 1: I know Brooke has said. There's gotta be something else,
Speaker 1: some other reason. Because a jewelry fight isn't a big
Speaker 1: enough reason to do that. And that got me thinking,
Speaker 1: what if she never actually lost the jewelry? What do
Speaker 1: you mean what if she went and ponned it and
Speaker 1: lied and now feels guilty about it because.
Speaker 3: That's the night they were drinking, she had it on
Speaker 3: when they left.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I would have done. I would
Speaker 1: have gone right to the pond shot this entire time.
Speaker 4: If anything, this ring has more sentimental value than financial value.
Speaker 2: Yeah, your family heirlooms are like my family heirlooms, like
Speaker 2: we love them.
Speaker 3: They're very sentimental to us.
Speaker 2: But then you go get it a praise and you're like, well,
Speaker 2: we could give you twenty six dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, Okay, we can all call our parents
Speaker 1: jewelry cheap later. But now we need to get into
Speaker 1: these questions because, as you know, Amelia has already worked
Speaker 1: with our producer to send these four questions to our sister.
Speaker 1: We have her answers ready to read. Amelia, Are you
Speaker 1: ready for this?
Speaker 4: I am?
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go. Let's go to the first closure
Speaker 1: call question. We said. First of all, I feel completely
Speaker 1: terrible about the last time we hung out. I want
Speaker 1: to apologize for getting so angry and blowing up at
Speaker 1: you about mom's jewelry. I went way over the line
Speaker 1: with what I said, but I don't don't think it's
Speaker 1: worth moving out of state and breaking off contact with me.
Speaker 1: I'm super sorry. Can you forgive me?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 3: I mean that, but would hit me wrong. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: tell you everything in front of it.
Speaker 4: I mean, I wish it was a little more brief.
Speaker 4: I probably rambled on because haven't talked run so long.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it gets the overall point across, I guess.
Speaker 1: And also I'm not a very good reader, so they'll
Speaker 1: put some of that on me.
Speaker 2: Mean, Jeff, I know exactly how she felt in her
Speaker 2: tone of her response.
Speaker 3: What she said, we're.
Speaker 1: Basically asking for forgiveness, and your sister wrote back she said, well,
Speaker 1: I do appreciate you saying that, and I can one
Speaker 1: hundred percent forgive you. Oh, I will let you know.
Speaker 1: I had a friend tell you that I moved out
Speaker 1: of state, but really I just moved to a new neighborhood.
Speaker 1: I'm about seven blocks away.
Speaker 4: From No, that's what. Yeah, that sounds ridiculous. I haven't
Speaker 4: run into her seven blocks away like surely.
Speaker 1: I had a friend who moved into the same apartment
Speaker 1: complex with me, and I never once saw him ever
Speaker 1: in a year that he lived there. She might be
Speaker 1: actively trying to avoid you even when you're out in about.
Speaker 2: Like she wears eyes, she wears a mustache, maybe some sunglasses.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if she would go that far.
Speaker 3: Are you shocked? I am shocked the casual sounding response.
Speaker 4: I feel like I wouldn't put the mustache and loss
Speaker 4: the same pastor. I mean, this is really immature to do,
Speaker 4: like to tell somebody you moved out of state and
Speaker 4: you've just been there the whole time. Like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: a little put off by that.
Speaker 1: Okay, well let's move on to question two. Here we
Speaker 1: wrote to her. While I am sorry I reacted that way,
Speaker 1: I feel like you would have done the same. I
Speaker 1: told you mom's jewelry was important to me, and you
Speaker 1: ignored what I said and lost it. Do you think
Speaker 1: maybe I could get an apology from you?
Speaker 3: God' that's what you wanted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, accountability is important, and like she has lacked accountability
Speaker 4: in other situations, so like, yeah, I do still hold
Speaker 4: her to that standard.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, we're asking for an apology from her. She
Speaker 1: wrote back, Absolutely, I am sorry that that happened. I
Speaker 1: drank way too much and acted like a total idiot,
Speaker 1: and I feel really really bad for losing mom's things.
Speaker 3: Why is so reasonable?
Speaker 1: And because she's sober when she's writing back, I think
Speaker 1: the fights were all.
Speaker 3: It's been a year, Jeff. I'm sure she's been sober
Speaker 3: within the last year.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, but she keeps going, She says, that's not
Speaker 1: really the main reason I've been keeping my distance, though
Speaker 1: I knew it.
Speaker 3: What is it? What is it?
Speaker 1: Does she say?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 4: Like? I'm more confused now than ever, honestly.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, maybe we'll get some more answers as we
Speaker 1: keep moving through these. We're going to the third question
Speaker 1: in the closure call we sent. We haven't been able
Speaker 1: to catch up in the year since you moved, So
Speaker 1: is there anything else I should know? Your sister wrote back, well,
Speaker 1: I'm nervous to tell you this, but the main reason
Speaker 1: why I cut contact and moved a little farther it
Speaker 1: is because I met someone. Oh well, technically re met
Speaker 1: someone and we became very very close. Okay, please don't
Speaker 1: hate me forever, but for the last year or so,
Speaker 1: I've been seeing your ex Ryan.
Speaker 3: What gosh did you hear that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I heard it, but like, no, I also did not
Speaker 4: just hear that, because that is like, that is such
Speaker 4: a boundary. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Ryan and I.
Speaker 4: Literally lived together when she was living like a few
Speaker 4: walks away, when we were living in the same complex. Like,
Speaker 4: it's not even okay, even if like nothing started when
Speaker 4: we were together, Like you can't go fishing in a
Speaker 4: different pond, like you have to go after my exes?
Speaker 4: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: You understand that's why she said she it's inappropriate, and that's.
Speaker 4: Why she's that's disgusting. I'm completely disgusted. I'm not mad.
Speaker 4: I am literally physically ill right now.
Speaker 1: She does keep going and says, I'm really really sorry
Speaker 1: it just happened, and we didn't want to hurt you,
Speaker 1: so we've tried to keep it a secret.
Speaker 4: Oh oh yeah, that's way. That's way better, right, that's
Speaker 4: super better. Yea.
Speaker 2: I love how she says, I don't want to hurt you,
Speaker 2: but I'm not going to talk to you for a year.
Speaker 3: Like what do you think? Yeah, are you still in
Speaker 3: love with Ryan?
Speaker 4: No? I mean, like I'm said that was the first
Speaker 4: guy I ever lived with, Like we were together like
Speaker 4: through college and then we moved back Like she wouldn't
Speaker 4: have even known him if I had not moved in
Speaker 4: with him back home.
Speaker 3: That's kind of creepy on his part.
Speaker 5: Like and what if like what if they are like
Speaker 5: living together they like, you know, like when they'm going
Speaker 5: to be family with him? To no, like, no, I'm
Speaker 5: super close to my family, Like I cannot even believe that,
Speaker 5: just like I.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, but we're running out of time here,
Speaker 1: and I have to get to the fourth and final
Speaker 1: question that we sent.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 1: So what we wrote to her was, I know we
Speaker 1: fight sometimes, but I do really miss you. We're sisters
Speaker 1: and we need to love and cherish each other. Is
Speaker 1: there any chance we can meet and catch up in person?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, hard path?
Speaker 2: Did you say hard pass?
Speaker 4: Was red?
Speaker 1: We write before we get entered the answers.
Speaker 4: Back, So right, if that did not age, well, wait,
Speaker 4: you all don't want to.
Speaker 1: See it, she should see I'll tell you that she
Speaker 1: did answer it. What say she wrote? Well, actually, Ryan
Speaker 1: and I are supposed to go to mom and Dad's
Speaker 1: for the next holiday, So if that's not gonna be
Speaker 1: too weird for you. No, she says, f Yi, Mom
Speaker 1: and dad know already about me and Ryan. They've known
Speaker 1: for four or five months. We all agreed not to
Speaker 1: tell you because we were worried that you wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to handle it.
Speaker 4: Girl.
Speaker 3: You'll show them you can handle it.
Speaker 4: Right, ye, Like I'm literally speechless. I have no I
Speaker 4: have no words. I mean, like what am I even
Speaker 4: supposed to say to that? Like so, like my mom
Speaker 4: and dad have been lying to me too, Like that's perfect,
Speaker 4: that's great stuff.
Speaker 3: Why well they could tell that you're I mean, you know, no, there's.
Speaker 4: No excuse, Like you can't protect somebody by like hiding
Speaker 4: the truth from them. You can't protect somebody by freezing
Speaker 4: them out but not talking to them. Like none of
Speaker 4: them handled this right from Jump Street. And I've been
Speaker 4: sitting here feeling guilty about some out of pocket comments
Speaker 4: that I made when I was rightfully angry like that, like, okay, way.
Speaker 3: More deep breath, deep breath. Does Ryan have a brother
Speaker 3: you could date?
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, yeah, Dad.
Speaker 4: If anything, I will like I'm going after Ryan's dad.
Speaker 1: Oh well, at least maybe the good news that came
Speaker 1: out of this as we've reopened the communication line with
Speaker 1: you and your sister and we've learned it really happened.
Speaker 4: I think after you sit with this, we'll communicate.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I was going to.
Speaker 2: Say, I think after you sit with this for a minute,
Speaker 2: maybe you'll see that it's not as big of a deal.
Speaker 4: As I'm going to sit with it. On Ryan's dad's
Speaker 4: lap as the.
Speaker 1: D that was your closure fall.
Speaker 2: I actually support that, Okay, Yeah, only if Ryan's dad's
Speaker 2: rich Brook and Jeffrey in the morning brooking Jeffrey in
Speaker 2: the morning,