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And this is also in the eye of the beholder. I think my family is the best family on Earth and love everything about my parents. I fit in with them like 3 peas in a pod. My sister actually was adopted and thinks my family is the worst. She ran away and maintains no contact with them. She wishes she had a quirky family instead of the preppy family we have that loves to travel. My sister fought with them for her whole adolescence whereas I loved being home with my parents, reading the same books they read, shopping with them, cooking with them and I love raising my family near them. [/quote]

Man, that's gotta be tough for your sister.[/quote]

I sort of feel like it's karma. She was the beautiful one that everyone loved when we were younger. I really worked hard to get other people to like me and to get attention from my parents. She got ALL the attention from everyone whereas I was just the good kid who didn't need as much parental help, homework help or anything else. I was ignored a lot as a kid. I'm sure my parents wish she was there instead of me. [/quote]

Its very much Karma.  I never felt I fit into my family.  They valued education and my sister got straight A's/honors and I tried hard and never did.  My parents were very insulting to me.  They blamed me for everything wrong in the family and still make comments about how difficult I was.  I was the kid who helped with the cooking, cleaning, laundry, and even when I turned 16, did things like care for the cars.  Always came home when I said I would, etc. They have no idea how good they had it.  I barely have contact and we live close by.  My mom says the nastiest things about me to my kids.

We adopted.  She's perfect for our family.  She is similar to us but we make sure we do a balance and her needs/wishes, etc. with ours/rest of the family.  We would have done it regardless of how our child joined our family.[/quote]

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