Did you know there was about a thirty percent chance I would be triplets? I never had siblings, so just the idea that some people had sisters was, to me, akin to the idea that some people attend Hogwarts. Namely, impossible but wonderful-sounding.
When the nurse wheeled my mom out of the hospital, she whispered frantically in her ear: "You can still try for the next one, but make it soon. Try soon, or it'll be too late." You know, kind of like how we're combatting global warming.
My exhausted parents didn't try again. I don't have a sister named Holly, but I could have. My Mom has said it was a potential name for another girl. Maybe she'd even have math skills.
Maybe she would've persuaded our mom to put real ants in my ant farm. Then again, she might have let them loose over the whole house.
And then I think how much our lives would be different. We'd spin tales around each other, laughing through shadows, singing long into the night.
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My parents were considering having a second child when I was six years old, but then my mom got Super Pneumonia. So I could have had a fourteen-year-old brother or sister right now.
Your hypothetical sibling and my hypothetical sibling should be friends.
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