Last summer, in the midst of her seven weeks at a Pennsylvania sleepaway camp, Ilana Yunis's 9-year-old daughter Serena wrote a letter home that said something like this, "I hate it here. How could you send me here?"
Yunis jokes that she "needed a horse tranquilizer" after receiving the letter. "Out of the blue, she sent me this incredibly, horrifyingly sad homesick letter," says Yunis, 40, an attorney in Manhattan.
Yunis commiserated with her older sister, Aliza Licht, 45, a marketing consultant and author from Manhattan. The sisters grew up in North Woodmere and attended that same sleepaway camp when they were girls, and Licht also had a daughter, Sabrina, now 11, at the camp.
