Compare And Contrast Two Sisters

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They say that sisters should be close and have many similarities to one another, but have you ever noticed that, more than half the time, this isn’t necessarily the case? Many of them can come from completely alien backgrounds and only share one parent, and still be as different as night and day. With that being said, this is the case for my older half-sister, Shannon, and myself; however, we don’t believe in “halves,” so we are as close as full sisters. We don’t have the same father, but our mother gave birth to us in a rather large gap of eighteen years and two weeks apart, in February 1979 and February 1997 respectively. Even though we have seen plenty of each other in our lifetime, with Shannon living just several miles away, we are …show more content…

As a little kid and even to this day, Shannon is a lot more outgoing and eager than I could ever be, whereas I am very introverted and would rather stay in my room than party all night, every night. I’ve heard many times that Shannon was a daredevil as a kid, so it’s not too surprising that those ways haven’t really changed. Contrasting to me, Shannon is more than eager to try new things, always willing for something new to do in her life as opposed to having the same routine day after day. I’m not really a fan of change, so unlike my sister, I tend to stick to what I like to do and stay in my comfort zone. Being the younger sister, I am a relatively new freshman in college, still frantically searching for myself, while Shannon works full time at a restaurant bar and keeps in contact with her two children, Chloe and Savannah, who live with their father in another state. I believe that she has a better idea of where her life is taking her than I do at the …show more content…

My mother’s friends and Shannon’s father believe that we are too unalike to be even remotely related, and I believe that this is both true and untrue due to the fact that we still share similar qualities as sisters, such as the same hazel eyes as our mother. The fact that we contrast from each other is most obvious from, as I have been discussing, our appearances, our backgrounds, and our lifestyles. I currently wonder if Shannon realizes as much as I do that we’re not exactly alike. Perhaps, in a few years or so, we might not be quite as dissimilar as we are right now, but we’ll just have to see where our busy lives end up taking

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