My older sister was named Ife, a Yoruba name that means love. She died many years ago, but I think of her often. I wish I took the time to truly know her better beyond just being one of my many sisters. My thoughts about her always land on the circumstances surrounding her death. Ife suffered from a vicious addiction to crack cocaine and was also HIV-positive. She was beautiful even with the weight loss. When she passed, I was in the middle of completing a graduate public hea