Dear Sisters,

Someday you may look at each other and see more of your opposite than your reflection.

 You may compete against each other for something like the basketball team, or the lead in a one act play or, God forbid, a boyfriend.

Or perhaps you will steal each other’s best designer jeans or lipstick or favorite earrings.

Maybe sometime in the near future you might tell on your sister for not sharing or pulling your hair or for giving you the stink eye and calling you “smelly.”

Inevitably, you will fight in catty ways that only sisters fight.

And when you do, I will show you this:

And tell you that in your beginning you were just two girls, side by side

And that in an entire room of open space

there wasn’t an inch between you

And that despite the sibling rivalry, rest assured my girls, for the rest of your lives each of your best friends will be less best

next to your sister.

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