You have probably heard all about us and the pants. Carmen got the pants at the thrift store next to Yes! She didn't even try them on. The pants came at a perfect time, when we were about to separate for the first summer since we were born. The pants fit us all perfectly, even though we are different body types (with the exception of the time the pants were trying to tell me I needed to get my life back together). We are the sisterhood of the traveling pants. Our mothers met in their maternity aerobics class. (Who would do that?) We were due in the same month. We were always together,. We knew it couldn't stay that way forever, but we weren't prepared to deal with how the separation felt. It was hard.
Last year, we went to college. It was the first time we had been away from each other for that long. Lena and I were all the way up in Rhode Island, she at RSID, I was at Brown Tibs was in New York, she was at NYU and Carma was at Williams. I didn't see any of them as much as I thought I would, not even Lena. We all made sure to see each other at least once a month, but it wasn't the same. Now we get to go back home, and see what happens.
Most of us wont be home for long. I'm going to be coaching at a soccer camp, Eric will be there too. Carmen is going down to South Carolina to visit her dad and his family, and Tibby is working on an independent film with some of her NYU friends. They'll be filming in Florida. Lena is staying home. She has a job with Annik at the art studio.