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Jesse Harris, pages pg 1-43
The math never added up having a twin sister ... sharing everything, struggling for space and identity ... it was a push pull ... times of intense togetherness and creativity and times of struggle to find and forge a separate identity.
I admired Jo ... wanted to be her (didn't we all) … and also felt a secret shame that my sister love was also tainted with envy and anger.
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I chose the first chapter in Little Women where the girls are putting on a play ...
My sister and I wrote, directed and of course starred in lots of plays inviting friends and school mates ... We wrote songs and created sets from the topography of our basement ... these were the best of times.
Our fights were epic ... I seethed quietly ... pushing and pulling to be able to feel separate ... then shocked at how alone and at sea I felt when I was on my own. This work was created from a cache of childhood drawings ... who drew them? Did I? Did she? This was the central dilemma ... never quite being able to claim something as my own.
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