[gentle music]
- Janaki Symon: How did you view me when we were children?
- Melissa Wilbur: 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?
- Janaki: 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.
- Melissa: How did we come from this hate to where we are now?
Because I can't even picture myself without you.
- Janaki: 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 if the last barrier between us was gone.
- Melissa: Something in each of us
didn't want to give up on a 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. - Janaki: I love you too.
And I'm very, very glad that you are my sister.
["Sage the Hunter" by Blue Dot Sessions]