Sharing sisters remain close in new business venture
Sisters Cara Protain, 53, and Beth McAuliffe, 58, launched a business together, Lilac Sisters Handmade Home Decor.
“We not only shared a room growing up, we had to share a bed for as long as I can remember. I guess that’s just what our parents had for us. So we were pretty close. I shared her clothes all the time.”
“I started working at Dairy Queen, so I would buy my own clothes and everything.”
“And they were cool, so I wore them, too.”
“We eventually moved down here for Dad’s job. But while he and Mom came down first, they let me finish out my school year back in Indiana. I was just turning 16, and the two of us lived together in our family’s house for four or five months. She’s five years older than me, so I guess our parents trusted her.”
“I was almost 21 and had a 2-year-old child by then. So I had to work hard and make some money. She babysat in the evenings because I would work all kinds of hours. She was left alone with my daughter a lot of the time. But it was just kind of how it had to be.”
“I had obligations, so I couldn’t do some of the things that I normally did, like gymnastics and cheerleading. But it was fine. It was what family did for family, you know?”
— Cara Protain and Beth McAuliffe
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