7 Things I Never Told My Older Sister Because I Know Better, In Reverse Chronological Order

  1. If you ever feel like leaving him, renting a rich blue convertible and becoming someone else somewhere in the desert, I'll go with you.

  2. Thank you for all the horrible and/or dangerous things you did first, so I could learn from your mistakes. Specifically: getting herpes, dropping out of school, getting a trendy dream catcher tattoo.

  3. I dropped acid with your ex-girlfriend.

  4. Remember back during your chunky crystals and channeling spirits phase, when you told me in the back seat of a Ford Taurus that you had spoken with my higher self and she was “really worried about me”?  I haven’t trusted myself since.

  5. I took French in school because you did, and I thought we would be able to have top secret conversations about sex and drugs and rated R films in front of mom. Why didn’t we do that?

  6. I was the one that destroyed your Black Crowes tape, not the dog.

  7. Every time you ran away from home, I followed you.

 

 

 

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