sister and let her have one small element of control in her sister’s care. I don’t think that a psychiatrist could have done a better job. All of these people with all of their different skills and person- alities made up the complicated and colorful patterns which comprised the quilt of Kara’s first stages of recovery.
CHAPTER 8 A Sister’s Impressions by Guerin Elizabeth Anglim Eleventh place goes to Long Reach Swim Club of Bath, Maine...” the announcer’s voice was drowned out by our excited screams. “Oh my God! I can’t even believe that we did it,” I said as my eyes filled with tears of happiness. Eleanor, Eliza, Katrine and I all hugged as the shock that our 200-free relay team had made it to finals settled in our minds. What that meant was that we were going to swim that night again with the fastest relay teams in the nation. It was the first relay from Maine to ever have made it to the finals at Nationals and it was something that we had been working toward all season. Our coaches, Jay and Todd, were very proud of us and the rest of our team was also. Our relay team was on cloud nine for the rest of the beautiful, sunny, Florida day. We all went out to lunch at Joe Belair’s, our favorite spot, and then Eleanor, Eliza and I relaxed in the hotel. Katrine was only thirteen years old and had tons of energy so she played in the ocean all that afternoon. Before we knew it, it was time to go back to the Ft. Lauderdale Hall of Fame Pool to swim. We all had on our matching black paper suits and blue caps. We dove in to warm up and it was exciting just to be warming up with all the other swimmers who had made it to finals. The 200-free relay was the first event so we didn’t have much time to be nervous. Our coach, Jay, gave us a pep talk and then we gathered behind our starting