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Friday essay: I modelled myself on my sister – but why are storytellers obsessed with sisterhood?

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By Edwina Preston
| Tolerance Canada
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Friday essay: I modelled myself on my sister – but why are storytellers obsessed with sisterhood?

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By Edwina Preston
| Inkl
There was, of course, one superficial difference: my sister was blonde and my hair was dark. The significance of this had not escaped me, even as a young child. When we danced and sang to Abba, I always had to be Frida and never Agnetha. Our real-life attributes – our hair colour – decided the casting. (Those were the rules.) Edwina Preston and her sister were ‘were practically the same person’ – though one was dark, the other blonde.
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Friday essay: I modelled myself on my sister – but why are storytellers obsessed with sisterhood?

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By Edwina Preston
| The Conversation Verified
“You two are like chalk and cheese!” my mother once declared to my sister and me when we were teenagers. Her happy declaration left me deeply confused, for I believed exactly the opposite. I had modelled myself on my sister. Our voices were the same, our gestures, our intonations, our opinions. Even our friends. What on earth was my mother talking about? My sister learned French at high school and I learned German, but otherwise we were practically the same person.
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