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There is nothing your sister/brother(s) can ever do to push you away.

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How do you even do that, by the way? Choose just one or two things to help you remember someone for the rest of your life?

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I feel that the little brothers in the world don’t receive enough recognition for the amount of laughs, support, and love they give us older siblings. Relationships ebb and flow, and my brother and I have had some pretty epic battles, but in the end we have always been fortunate enough to have a strong bond.

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What I do want you to know is that it’s completely okay to be unsure about your future. It’s okay to want to study to be a nurse one semester or want to study English literature to become a professor the next.

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Her mistakes helped you to avoid similar obstructions. “Mental note to self: get caught throwing a party in mom and dad’s absence… major suffering ensues.”

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Teaching the little sister about all of the parental rules that are set in stone, and all the rules that can be bent and/or broken if need be.

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I didn’t know that volunteers could be rejected. I felt like a drug-dealer. I felt like the college I thought I’d get into had rejected me. I wondered if the FBI had uncovered something incriminating in my records. If someone had stolen my identity briefly. If I have committed horrifying crimes in my sleep.