Location Taken: Columbia, Maryland
Time Taken: July 2008

This is my sister. Isn’t she cute?

I took this on a shopping trip at one of the local grocery stores. Said grocery store has little carts for the kids. My sister, being about as silly as I am, decided to use one. They also sell very tiny things of ice cream for those who just want a bit of it. Thus, a photo was born.

My sister and I get along very well. We did have a touch of sibling rivalry at first. But well, I was a two-year-old and she was a baby. She was quite thoroughly winning in the cuteness department. So I gave up. Rather than be jealous of this adorable little wiggly thing the parents brought home one day, I decided to be a proper big sister and tease her mercilessly for the next 24+ years – um, I mean, try not to compete with her in everything. We developed our skills in parallel in many ways. She took the social stuff, I took everything else. Ok, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but then, I’m an artist who loves science, and she’s working on becoming a psychologist. Where one of us couldn’t handle something, the other one would step up. We were friends growing up, even in the teenage years, and are still friends to this day, even if she decided to move thousands of miles away to the Seattle area for school. Yay for the internet letting us chat frequently!

Well, as frequent as any two people with social phobia will. Which means I pester her at least once a week. Ah well, can’t ask for everything.

By the way, she’s as weird as example of humanity as I am, so beware! She’s vicious! And still cute!

I tend to call her my sibling, actually. Largely because it suits her better than “sister” does (neither of us follow standard gender roles that well), though partly just for amusement’s sake. And well, we WERE in the same fraternity in college (co-ed service frat, but still…), so we can count each other as brothers too! So sibling makes sense!

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