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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
A good guess. And both my parents are also the youngest sibling, so I feel they can identify more with my sister than with me.
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Oh, I'd love to say it was a one-off thing, but the saga of being the eldest is a pretty well-known song. I am, many of my entrepreneurial friends are; there is simply something about being the eldest that ends up (generally--not always, of course) making you "the responsible one," and inevitably the one that gets screwed over, in favor of the baby of the family. It almost drove me, and my sister (younger than I, but older than him) berserk, dealing with my mother's relative insanity about not seeing my brother's flaws, or being unwilling to admit that they existed. {shrug}.
The whole "move on Xmas day" thing, and the fact that your parents hadn't stepped in, or said "that's insane" by the time you'd written the post? HAD TO BE a younger sibling that was a favorite. No other sane explanation. (I'd assumed that if there were extenuating circumstances, you'd have said.)
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