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This reads as an argument for siblings as the first steady witnesses to who we are. It can be taken to mean that brothers and sisters see us before the polished versions we show the rest of the world, when our habits, fears, and rivalries are still forming. In a family discussion, it lands as a reminder that sibling memory can be unusually honest and enduring.
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About Jeffrey Kluger
American magazine editor and author
Jeffrey Kluger is an American magazine editor and author. He is editor at large at Time magazine and has written thirteen books across a range of subjects. His books include works on psychology, medicine, family dynamics, and spaceflight, among them The Narcissist Next Door, Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, The Sibling Effect, and Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13. Lost Moon later served as the basis for Ron Howard's film Apollo 13. He has also written two young adult novels and one novel for adults, Holdout.
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