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[quote=Anonymous]In a situation like this where I was the older half-sibling, my sister and I were really happy to suddenly have a sister.  My feelings about her are mostly completely separate from my feelings about our shared mother, and my sister and I are pretty close. Our mother is deceased.  My father, who I am estranged from, is on his fourth wife and they have three young children. (His fourth wife is only a couple of years older than I am.)  I don't know whether those kids know about me, and I'm half-expecting that when they are adults and my father has passed away, they will contact me.

So my advice for your friend is to try to see the new sibling as a positive, and take it slow but try to build some kind of relationship with her.  If the sibling is in touch with the father, obviously that makes it harder because your friend may be jealous or it may trigger all the negative father-related feelings she has. She should discuss it with her mother, and with her sibling.  She should continue to be estranged from her father if she had good reason to be so before; this doesn't change that.[/quote]

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