QUOTE : The very word-sister-implied a closeness, an unshakable connection. Was that true? Just because you share parents, by blood or by marriage, doesn't mean your personalities will be complementary. That you'll enjoy the same activities. Share the same politics. The easier thing with relatives...was to be familiar strangers. To know one another's moods just by a look, to accept all the tiny peculiarities that make up a person's habits, and yet with all this secret knowledge to manage never to ask each other about hopes and dreams. To assume the very fact of being siblings negated the need to become true friends.