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I hope you make sisterhood a verb. I hope you go beyond the pretty t-shirts, and podcasts, and slogans, and hashtags, and put action behind your good intentions.

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I see you, I see you, I see you.

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Sitting on the couch watching Lifetime movies while attempting to keep Gatorade down is just a little more tolerable when she’s there to watch you suffer. Bonus: if she lets you use the blanket you’ve fought over forever, you owe her a candy bar.

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Don’t spend the time that you’re single “waiting” for Mr. Right. Spend it working — on yourself.

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I have kept the pieces of you I have left in my heart.

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‘Woman’ is not synonymous with weak.

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The team is made up of intelligent, unsporty, career-driven women who are all happy to take themselves completely out of their comfort zone and do something that they are all genuinely shit at.

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You are your own being. The ways in which you’ve grown are tremendous and every day I see a little of every one who loves you within you. However, I have been most lucky to see who you have grown to be. I hope you know how much you are loved.

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I don’t need to understand how she exists, or why. My sister is with me at all times, but her presence is somehow more pronounced when I need her the most.

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“So you start Middle School today…and that is crazy because it feels like a week ago, I was sitting in 6th grade science class waiting for mom to call my Tracfone and tell me that you were born.”