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At some point in your life you will come to accept your siblings, come to accept them for themselves. With their faults and their good points. With their dazzling beauty and your average looks. With their superior intelligence and your average mind. With your large house and their cottage. With your good health and their awful disease.
Acceptance comes at odd moments. Sometimes it comes during an unexpected tragedy. It may come when one of you has a close brush with death or a severe illness. Perhaps acceptance will come during a happy time, a wedding, a celebration.
Acceptance of your sibling does not always come easily. It may take years to work through hurtful memories of a boyfriend lost to your sister or a game lost to your brother. Maybe you were the family favorite and your sisters and brothers resent you. Maybe you were the last person to see your parents alive. Maybe you were the one who could do no wrong.
Achieving anything of value takes time, work, and patience. Work and talk through any sensitive subject you may have with your siblings. Don’t let anything come between you. As time goes on, you will realize how lucky you are to have them. Not everyone is so lucky.
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