An Open Letter To The Sister I've Never Met

We share the same blood. We also share the same coarse afro hair, almond shaped eyes and brown skin. We share the same father. You are at once intimately familiar to me and yet completely Other. You exist as a genetic paradox; a being with half of my biological make-up who manages to be so totally alien that for 23 years I barely acknowledged your existence. It was only when I opened an old photo book and saw images of you that I realised how little I know you. While I was back home over Christm