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Your Barbies won’t make it out alive.

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These are the many things I’ve learned while being the oldest of seven.

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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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We shared a moment of being just us, the two sisters. And then we held him, our baby brother James, and everything changed.

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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.