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Karen Simmins was a 20 year old addicted to heroin and barbiturate’s when she died. She lived with her mother, father, two sisters and brother in Richmond, B.C. She came from a family of writers and after she passed away her two sisters, one younger and one older, decided to write about their experiences of living with Karen. Her younger sister, Marjorie Simmins, wrote about growing up with her and how Karen was her best friend, until Karen’s drug problem became too much of a problem. Her older sister, Zoë Landale, wrote about the events of Karen’s life in a seemingly emotionless piece of writing. Both writers have the same plot, drug related events getting worse up until Karen’s death on Christmas day. Each author also writes about how the death affected them and their family. The two writers talk about the same subject matter but have two radically different views of their sister in the their writing. Zoë and Marjorie show two different views of Karen’s life in their writings: Zoë Landale’s “Remembering Karen” and Marjorie Simmins’ “Trips from There to Here”. Marjorie decided to try to become her best friend so she could look over her. “I decided to be friends with her, to move beside her, where