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boxspelunker
04/02/09

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My sister came to visit today! It made me very happy. I love her so much, and she's always been a person I want to be like.

Recently, she's made some bad choices, but I hope that she's coming around. Boxsister is smart as a whip, but has some impulse control issues.

My dream is to one day finish our webcomic. We started and it was FUCKING AWESOME AS SHIT. But then she went away to college and got busy. And had boyfriends.

Boxspelunker was a loser and hardly had any friends, so... that didn't work out so well.

It's okay, boxsister. Come hang and make comics with me once more!
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Chocolate Sex Bunny
04/02/09

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I don't have a bio sister but growing up I had a foster sister and that bitch was 10 kinds of cray-cray! (crazy).

She stole my clothes (she would wear my private school uniform to her public school), started doing her hair and make-up exactly like mine, flirted with any guy who called the house or came by to see me, wrote all this crap in her diary about me trying to steal her boyfriend (WHO I HAD NEVER EVEN MET!) and when my parents found it, she claimed I was impersonating her via the diary! WHAT?

It was like "Single Black Female" the motion picture.

So yeah, sisterhood leaves a bad taste in my mouth but perhaps it would have been better had we been blood?

Hmm, I don't know...does anyone out there have blood sisters who behaved this way?

What I do know is, I have a brother who is six years younger and I love him soooo much and almost feel like he's my child. Is that weird? Maybe because I took care of him a lot when we were kids but I just love him so much and want so much for him to be happy and to succeed in life.

He's my baby...
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Hana Maru
04/02/09

@Chocolate Sex Bunny: Oh dear, that sounds like my bio-sister. She stole my stuff and bullied me my whole childhood and now she makes sporadic efforts to be nice to me, when she's in a good mood, while pretending none of it ever happened. When I respond guardedly, she gets mad at me all over again and tells me how awful and unfeeling I am when we're SUPPOSED TO BE SISTERS!!! I don't know how to respond to this, except bewilderment.
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TheGintheCity
04/02/09

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I always wished I had a sister, but when I visited the homes of my friends who had them, I was taken aback by all the hair-pulling.
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Hana Maru
04/02/09

@TheGintheCity: I always wished I didn't. Most of that hair-pulling(and punching, and clothes-stealing and verbal-undermining) was one way because she was older and bigger than me. People always imagine that a sibling would be like a best friend that lives with them. I know that's possible, but really, it's a crapshoot.
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thesciencegirl
04/02/09

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I have 3 sisters. I am #3 of 4, yet seem to function as the oldest at times. Whenever they have a crisis, especially relationship trouble, they call me crying. Somehow, I ended up the boring, well-adjusted one. Go figure.

I love having sisters. I especially love when we vacation together. We like to go on Caribbean cruises, and cause trouble. :)
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Hooplehead
04/02/09

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YES. My parents were only useful and interested in us in fits and starts, and my brothers were spoiled brats. My sisters deserve all of the credit for the fact that I have grown up to be anything approaching a well-adjusted, functional person.
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Tart of Darkness
04/02/09

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I love my sister but we are both bat-shit crazy in different ways. I guess I have to be grateful because if this study is correct we could both be worse.
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hkcd
04/02/09

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When my little sister was four she told me she'd asked Santa for a better sister for Christmas. Ouch. In her defense, I was a mini-jerk back in the day. We're cool now, though.
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thecameralovesyou
04/02/09

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I have 2 sisters (I'm the youngest) and the middle sister and I are best friends. The OLDER one however, always had an air of superiority growing up and was too "above" all of our childish immature games and such. She was never really involved in our foolishness and fun, so therefore we were always known as the oldest one and "the girls".

Now that we're adults, we've definitely grown closer to the oldest (and really compared to some families, even our "distant" phase was quite close) but the middle and I are still best friends. And so many of our friends/family members will say to us "It's so beautiful how close you two are". And it is :)
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portia_sue
04/02/09

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Great. My brothers get the benefit of living with me, but I get bupkiss from them.

It's like every day is Christmas. I get them awesome, really well thought out gifts, and they have my mom pick me up a sweater or a gift certificate on Christmas Eve.

This WILL be brought up the next time they're home from college. Bwuwahahahah
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bluebears
04/02/09

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My brother is visiting in 3 weeks and I am SO EXCITED!!!
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Elaken
04/02/09

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I am curious how age separation makes a difference. My guy has two sisters but they are older by 11 years and I wonder if that really helped them in anyway. I can say he is really not happy or emotionally open or communicative. So maybe he fits the brother situation since his brother is only a year older.
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zombie.nancy is a godess of fierce
04/02/09

@Elaken: my sisters are older than me - one by 8 years, the other by 11. we have very distinct personalities but get along very well. there was never any sibling rivalry & we each are a puzzle piece that completes the fam.

a lot of people seem to think a sig. age difference will hinder bonding, i disagree ;o)
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rednrowdy
04/02/09

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friends of mine who had sisters were always, always, always fighting with them about stupid stuff...especially if they were close in age. it made me kind of thankful that i didn't have sisters because i wanted no part of that. i have two brothers and i'm in the middle and we didn't ever fight about stupid stuff. we're far apart in age, but we always agreed on the major things in life and respected each other implicitly.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
04/02/09

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I get this. It makes sense to me at least, because my sister and I have both always been weird and unlike everyone else. So our period of hatred didn't last very long, because we understand eachother like no one else can. We don't have any other siblings; my parents both wanted more but they weren't able to. Anyway our dynamic is a bit off, since she's the older one by four years, but has always been the less mature one, so I always felt like I was the big sister. She had tons of emotional problems as she grew up and I worried about her just as much as my parents did. She was the one getting into all sorts of crazy, awful situations of her own volition and needing someone to help her or come get her or take her to the hospital or whatever. She and my niece live with my parents and hopefully always will. I say hopefully because my parents and I both know that she'd never be able to take care of herself, let alone her daughter, without help. She's one of the most maddening people I have ever met. There have been times when I screamed at her and told her she should be ashamed of herself and she needed to get her act together. She's a total mess sometimes. She's also the sweetest and most genuinely kind person I know. She has the patience of a saint with her daughter. She's brilliant, despite her messy brain. She's an amazing artist. She's hilarious, and sometimes we text eachother back and forth all day long with ridiculous names for pets, just as an example. Or words spelled phonetically, or our own weird mashup of languages. As much as I'd sometimes like to beat her about the head, I love her madly and would be lost without her. She never held me down and farted on my face, either.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
04/02/09

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My brother and I are practically the same person though we're 7 years apart (I'm 22, he's 15)- we had a conversation yesterday about how he's so much cooler than his stupid, immature friends because he's surrounded by a family full of women.

I have a sister too :: We get along fine but aren't really that close for whatever reason. :(
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ImproperDancing
04/02/09

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They didn't say anything about both!

I have both! I WANNA KNOW!

And really, I'm only more successful because of my sister....through her bitching at me...

But no, I'd have to say it's pretty rewarding even though we fight like cats and dogs at 22 and 24 years old still.
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