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Annette Livas

1965–2010

OBITUARY SAMPLES & EXAMPLE OBITUARIES I remember her picking me up from preschool on her old bike. I would wait for her all day, plastered against the gate, watching for the figure in the distance; the slim, upright girl growing larger and more real as she neared. She smelled good; washing-powder, chewing-gum, Charlie perfume. The skin of her cheeks so smooth, her arms unbelievably pale and soft as she held me. She would have been all of twelve years old. We cycled under jacarandas that flung petals at our feet, felt the fading heat of the day on our faces. Once when we skidded and fell; sore, scratched and bruised, she whispered in that calm, authoritative voice of hers: ‘Don’t tell Mum.’ As we both matured then aged, we grew even closer. Once I made her walk from Kings Cross to Glebe at midnight. In heels. She would come to my home, clean my bathroom while I was away. She fed me, listened to my petty woes. She bought me clothes, took me to hairdressers and nightclubs. She let me tag along on holidays and treated me to cafés, held me in that way I’d always remembered since I was four. When I was a baby she would rock me gently, singing a song she made up under her breath. She was the only person that could get me to sleep. My big sister.