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Tears streamed down my face as I stared at my reflection in our hallway mirror. The gaping cut in my chin had finally stopped bleeding. My sister and I had gotten into a shoving match on our cement patio, and I fell face-first onto the concrete. I lost the fight, but won a trip to the emergency room.

And that wasn't the last of our mishaps. Unfortunately, as the younger sister I usually came up on the short end.

Like the time we went sledding. My sister was the driver, and a bad one at that. She rolled off the sled right before I crashed into a tree. As I lay in the snow, gasping for air, she cried, "What am I going to do without you?"

Obviously, I didn't die that day, I just got the wind knocked out of me. And looking back, despite all the shouting matches that ended with "that's not fair," I see now that my older sister was always my very best friend.

We were total opposites, me in pink, she in blue. She was the neat freak, I was not. But it was a good balance. She was always so loyal. Like the time I wanted to eat pink oatmeal and I added a little Kool-Aid. Needless to say, the oatmeal not only changed color, it also got cold and tasted really gross. My dad made me sit at the table until I ate it all. And my sister sat with me.

Having a big sister was like having a watchdog for my heart. And the older I got, that never changed. Whenever my friends were being mean to me, she would let 'em have it. And when I'd sit by the phone on a Saturday night waiting for a phone call that never came, she'd take me to Dairy Queen.

Siblings, no matter what you may think now, are a blessing from God. And that's why we've included a special feature all about them.

I never got big sis back for the day she made the cement meet my chin. To this day I try to convince her she still owes me something for the trauma she caused me. But as soon as I say that, she brings up the time I laughed when she broke her arm.

Ahh, sisterly love!

Autumn and your friends @ Campus Life

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