Our lives, better left to chance, we could have missed the pain but we would have missed the dance.

Dedicated to my elder twin sisters, Emma and Rosie.

Intertwined is sixteen years of laughter and fights, yelling and screaming through the halls while chasing each other. Intertwined is drinking lemonade on a hot day while looking at clouds and birds flying by. Intertwined is moving to unknown places and creating room clubs and secret handshakes, reading books that made them imagine and fly around on fake broomsticks as they jumped off the beds. Three little girls intertwined for life, no matter how difficult the road we travel gets, no matter how risky the chances are our lives are intertwined.

Intertwined means being there when you do not want to and making the most of it. Intertwined means standing strong through the bumps and bruises the world gives us. Standing side by side strong with out fear, standing intertwined. Moving through the months and years, watching each other grown in grace…and not so much grace, filling our lives full of dancing and music and the beauty God placed around us. Rolling down grassy hills and going to an old style school, looking at the mountains and trying to fly kites. Three young girls intertwined for life, no matter how difficult the road we travel gets, no matter how risky the chances are, our lives are intertwined.

Intertwined bounds the person who is close to you even closer then before, watching as the world stopped for a day and watching as New York was flown into devastation. Cords of three are hard to break when bound together tightly. Throwing a softball not knowing it will be your last with the friends around you. Intertwined holds the cord together as their lives changes forever, watching their father drive away because of the Army. Intertwined binds them together, does not break them though they are ready to. Readying them to break as they move from the happy memories of fun and laughter to another new place, a place that will only make them stronger still. Three girls growing up too fast but are still intertwined for life, no matter how difficult the road we travel gets, no matter how risky the chances are, our lives will always be bounded together.

Intertwined, deeply bound, and guarded by the new friends we make. Chances are made and the cords fray but stay together. Tempers are challenged and so are thoughts. Minds are made up for the better, accepting and embracing truths told, and unknown. The bounds of cord strength and grow long as things are explored in great hast. They are not broken as they move again but are only tested with will power and stubbornness. Through tears and accidents, four legged additions to the family and more drama then imagine three girls are still intertwined with the love and respect they show towards others. Through the rough times, through the years of being with only one parent, the cords fray, are tested with heavy objects but are still intertwined. Three maturing women intertwined for life, no matter how difficult the road we travel gets, no matter how risky the chances are, our lives will always be rooted together.

Fast pace, moving with excitement in the air. The last deployment, it is more then they can stand. College and the prospect of leaving home but returning…still not the same. Boys coming in and out, more problems with girls then the mind could handle. The cords shake and bend as scholarships are mailed in, acceptance letters are opened, and screams of joy and frustration fill the house. However, some are left behind wondering what will happen next. Moving on is hard, difficult and strange. The year flies by leaving one to ponder where time went. Soon graduation comes and two of the cords are stronger then the third but still are intertwined with it. The unknown is scary, the future is murky but…through the changes, and life brings us together through unnatural things that only make us…strong.

....No matter how difficult the road we travel gets, no matter how risky the chances are, our lives will always be, intertwined.