• My sister and I are close, but have lived in different countries for most of our adult lives. • Last year, we fulfilled a travel pact by visiting Liechtenstein together. • The trip helped us reconnect and appreciate our differences.

My sister and I have always been close in the kind of way that only siblings with a two-year age gap can be. We grew up sharing everything from wardrobes to the same old hand-me-down phone. As adults, though, life has pulled us in different directions.

She's 33 now, I'm 31, and somehow, we spent most of our twenties living in different countries. She moved to Singapore when she was 25, while I stayed in India. Just as she returned home, I left for Ireland. A year later I moved back home, and then moved again, this time to the Netherlands.

For years, ou

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