Though out all the years that I have been alive, my sister has been the most important person, and the person who has always cared for me and had the most influence on me.

    My sister’s name is Tara Olson; she has lived in South Dakota her whole life with my family and me. She loves to play sports, and she is a wonderful person to talk about. She is very genuine. She is a very caring person and would put a family member in front of anything else in her life.

    Of course my sister and I started out our lives fighting and what not like any other siblings do. As the years went by, we have grown so close. For as long as I can remember, she has been there for me through thick and thin. When people have to do essays on the person that is their idol, I have always chosen my sister. Everything she has done has been perfect in my eyes. She is just such a positive girl in everything she has accomplished. She’s an awesome athlete, and a great student. I wish I could live up to what she has done. Everything in her life has always gone right until she tore her ACL, and then everything just went bad. Though she couldn’t play sports anymore, she is still positive, she will still go and watch her team play even though it hurts her when she has to watch somebody play her position.

    Whenever I need comfort or anything, I always have somebody to call, and that’s my sister. Even if it’s nothing important, and I’m just bored, she will give everything up just to listen to me and be silly with me. Even if we have nothing to talk about, we can always come up with something. There is nobody else in the world that is as great as she. I don’t have another sister. I’m Sure if I did, and she was like Tara, that I would be close to her also. All in all I don’t need another sister besides Tara.

    I will never forget the day that Brianne died, and I was just so incredibly sad. She was there for me, and she always found the right thing to say to me to make me feel ten times better than before. She told me that she sat at that funeral, and she just thought to herself, "What if that was my baby sister? What would I do?" She didn’t know Brianne well, and she just kept thinking it was me. To say something like that is terrible. I know if I lost my sister, I wouldn’t know what to do with myself. I would be a complete wreck.

    Even though my sister is far away now, we always still talk about how we are always going to be together and we will never separate. That is what I need; she is everything to me. When my sister comes back, we always hang out. We are together every minute that she is here. I even drive to Colorado every once and a while to see her and to hang out. Just like this summer, I am going to go live with her for about two months. I’m very excited. She is not only my sister but also a best friend. She is so great at advice because she has been though everything that I have. She knows what to say at the right times, and of course she can keep a secret that is what is so awesome. We have such a good bond, and I just hope that though everything that she has taught me, I can live up to her expectations.