My younger sister and I have lived together ever since our parents passed and left us the house.

• Last year, my sister and I were told that our air conditioning unit was on its last leg and it wouldn’t make it through another summer.

Since that moment, every day both of us use the A/C unit, both of us wait for it to quit working. I knew that it was an old A/C unit, even though I didn’t have any idea why both of us should just throw it away when it was still working. I couldn’t stand that people felt they should get rid of something just because it was old. Very few days ago, my sister and I were house for the night. I went to sleep very early and it was only a couple of hours later that she was knocking on my door. She told me she thought our air conditioning was having some health issues. Her being a doctor meant that she was almost always putting the A/C problem into health terms. She said it seemed to be coughing worse than normal and both of us needed to call the Heating and A/C corporation. I wasn’t able to hear any noise, even though I did notice it was much warmer than normal. I checked out the air vents and when I didn’t suppose any cool air, I understood that she was one hundred percent right about the health of the A/C unit. I called the Heating and A/C supplier but they couldn’t do anything for the A/C unit. They let me know that they thought both of us should purchase a new A/C unit earlier this summer. I guess that we were blessed to be able to get through the worst area of the summer time before it finally broke. .

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