sibling survivalries
Much has been made about Margaret "Peggy" Seltzer, the writer whose gang violence memoir,
Love and Consequences, turned out to be a fabrication. But, the
New York Times asks today, what of
Cyndi Hoffman, Peggy's older sister? Hoffman is the one who turned "tattletale" and blew the whistle on Peggy.
Her own sister. "We have powerful expectations of loyalty from a sister," Marcia Millman, sociology professor and author of
The Perfect Sister: What Draws Us Together, What Drives Us Apart tells the
Times. "But along with the idealized image of sisters, that they are always close, there is a stereotype that sisters are very competitive. It's the two extremes." They say blood is thicker than water, but is the truth thicker than blood?
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