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Sibling relationships — and 80 percent of Americans have at

Sibling relationships — and 80 percent of Americans have at least one — outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust. – Erica E. Goode, “The Secret World of Siblings,” U.S. News & Worl

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To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. – Clara Ortega

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Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five. – Pam Brown

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Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. – Ugo Betti

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We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory. – Evelyn Loeb

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