Before I could answer, Lily put her arm around my shoulder (she had to reach down to do it) and said, “Why would he be embarrassed? He taught me how to read. He taught me how to be brave. Strength isn’t just muscles, Uncle Rob. And besides—if anyone ever tried to hurt him, they’d have to get through me.”
For some, it becomes difficult to maintain traditional "older sibling authority" when the younger one towers over them. Before I could answer, Lily put her arm
“I wanted people to see me for me, not her fat freak little sister,” she writes. “I wanted them to recognize me without her name on it.” Her story is a reminder that being the ”shorter” or ”lesser” sibling—regardless of which side of the age gap you fall on—comes with its own emotional weight. Strength isn’t just muscles, Uncle Rob