"This didn't come as a surprise, because as a teenager, I remember it exactly this way. Living parallel lives together as sisters. It was only ever the two of us, and with our ages so close together - I'm not even two years older - you might think we were inseparable. It just wasn't how it was. We were so different We were night and day different then."
"I woke early; she woke late. I was out with groups of friends at every opportunity; she had a couple of close friends she was content to see occasionally. I was meticulously tidy; she was unabashedly quite messy (we shared a room, so this posed problems). The list of differences was endless, but one thing we both had in common was that we could wind each other up as no one else could."
Two sisters played parallel as children, close in age but largely separate in interests and routines. One sister woke early, was social and tidy; the other woke late, kept few close friends and was messy. Shared pleasures included Pride and Prejudice, but mutual dependence was lacking. College and geographic separation reduced contact to occasional texts and brief weekend or holiday visits. A move to the UK coincided with the rise of social media and exposure to idealized sister relationships. After difficult life events, the older sister grew to value their friendship for its shared history and steadfast loyalty.
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