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Your Barbies won’t make it out alive.

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

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She knew that she’d be the first one you call in an emergency and was ready for anything.

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Parents are human beings too. They make mistakes. If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

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Younger siblings were the perfect combination of desperately approval-seeking and way too trusting – and you knew just how to use it to your advantage.

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The expectation for an older sibling to settle down is always at a premium.