SISTER SONGS SEASON 3 Episode 7: "Duet" 

In music, a duet is two voices playing together. Two melodies intertwining. Two people listening to each other, responding, making space, finding harmony. That's what we finally learned to do, Annemarie and me. After the silence. After the letters. After everything. We learned how to play together again.

Today is March 4th, 2026 — two years since my sister died.

In this episode: A duet we recorded in her living room in Longview. An Airbnb near the Bridge of the Gods where she played "Annie's Song" on the piano. A movie about Barbie. Forbidden music on the drive home. A question in a Portland restaurant I still don't know how to answer. Marco Polos in a helium voice. A pact about funerals we both broke in different ways. A grave I lay down on. A poem I read into the wind. And the sister who taught me that love, in the end, was more important than faith. 


Music:

• "Clair de Lune" — Debussy
• "The Entertainer" — Scott Joplin
• "Gnossienne No. 1" — Erik Satie
• "Sarabande" — Handel
• "Comptine d'un autre été" — Yann Tiersen (performed by Annemarie)
• "Nearer My God to Thee" — Traditional hymn
• "God Be With You Till We Meet Again" — Traditional hymn
• Original duet recording by Jenny & Annemarie, August 2022
• Additional tracks licensed via Envato Elements

Thank you: To Sandy, for her friendship, her stories, and for sending me the recording of Annemarie's hands on the piano. To Angie, for her musical guidance and for standing at the front of a restaurant in New York City and reading a poem over my marriage. To James and Frankie, for putting up with endless playbacks. And to you, for listening.