"Nina hugged her close again. "Five years. I can't believe we've beenapart for so long. This has been the longest time we've been away fromeach since ...efore birth!" And here I thought that us going to different colleges was hard todeal with. But even then, we'd always get together every holiday athome with mom and dad." Emily squeezed her sister tightly for emphasis."It's been too long. I really missed you."As they walked hand in hand towards the signs that read luggage andexit, Emily looked. "I dug myself in a little deeper. "There are other people who are enhanced. Dreamer told us that." Yeah, in some other area. Like New York or Miami. Even if there was one nearby, why should she go begging when she's already got people who know and love her right here? Maybe she should find herself a boat and go overseas. He said there were enhanced in Europe, too. Karen was here. She was the closest person to the cave when the change happened. She should have disappeared with everybody else.. It was the episode with all the confusion over Kramer's junior mint or something. I didn't really like Seinfeld, but I chuckled along with my sister.Suddenly, Melissa tapped me on the shoulder. “Know what?” she said.“What?” I asked her.“This show is crap. Let's watch something else.” She said. She picked up the remote and started flipping through channels. I just watched the TV flicking past. Then she stopped. I looked at the channel and saw that it was HBO.“I dunno,” she replied, “but HBO. I think that was the hardest part. Knowing that we could never wake her back up, and that she would never be with us again. The five of us would never crowd into one queen size bed again, all talking and laughing about something one of the guys said that was cute. We would never have five hands in the center of the circle to start the fun.She was gone.The priest was talking, but I wasn't listening. The nine of us all stood there, trying to hold ourselves together. It wasn't working to well..