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Hello my name is Venetia Hines I am the oldest sister of Marea Hines and I wanna thank everyone for joining us in her loving memory. Marea where do I start. When we were children I remembered how I first met you, it was when you were in your cradle and I was watching over you knowing you was going to be my best friend forever one day. Then we started getting older and then we started dressing the same and so many people thought we were twins in our matching outfits, those were good times. I know my parents were tired of hearing that Fast forward to middle school, we had so much fun when we moved to Oregon I know we met a lot of people, and you had so many friends out there. We use to go on fun events like a basketball games, or go volunteer somewhere to help our community. We use to go to bowling alleys, and we do more activities, we had so much fun doing them, especially when we didn’t get to see our parents. But I know we had some great times in Oregon. Now we moved back to Washington and went to two different schools for a little bit but then you came to Olympia High School with me and we had so many great memories there I remember when we use to hangout with Joy that was so much fun we use to go to her house almost everyday. We would make the most of our day/night together from holidays to birthdays we would always do something fun. I know that you made a lot of other friends too from school to cosmetology school I was so happy that you were going after a career you wanted. I remember I let you cut my hair and you got so mad that it was super short and they didn’t tell you how to cut curly hair I was happy you did my hair regardless it looked good and I loved it I was so happy I had someone who could do my hair without having to pay so much! You were living with friends too I remember you telling me how much fun it was cause you were able to do hair with them. Then we went to Pasco to see family and I remember you cutting our brother in law’s hair and he loved it too everyone in our family and our closest friends always supported you and your goals. You told me you wanted to do hair and beauty which you use to love doing your makeup. You use to love putting on makeup every morning when we went to school together I know we would talk about what makeup to use and what not use it was so cool that you would always have so many facts to tell me I miss hearing them. We didn’t have the best growing up but our parents were always there for us and made sure we were always good. They still talk about you everyday like you never left and it hurts cause we miss you everyone misses you I’m so sad I couldn’t say goodbye but I know this isn’t goodbye but I’ll see you soon I miss you so much and I wish we could spend the rest of our lives together like we promised as kids I love you forever Marea you will be missed greatly. But before I close I have a poem I wanna read. It’s called.