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Cousins Patricia Caddy and Jordane Lopez spent their summers like a lot of kids in the mid-90s did — watching sitcom reruns, recording their favourite songs on the radio onto mixtapes and playing games outside.
“We’d take cardboard flats and pretend we were sledding in the middle of summer and go down the hill and tumble off at the bottom,” Caddy recalled, with a smile. “It was the perfect 90s childhood.”
Lopez was a constant in Caddy’s life, someone she travelled, laughed and grew up with. In many ways, Caddy said, she was closer to her cousin than her own siblings, who were much older than she.
It’s tough to pinpoint stories about her cousin, though, Caddy said, because they were simply living, not consciously committing to memory those moments they might want to return to one day.
