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When adult siblings compete over understanding their parents

My brother and I are supposed to be planning our parents' 50th anniversary celebration but we can't agree on anything because he wants this big party and I know our parents would hate that, and underneath it I think we're fighting about who knows them better. Every conversation turns into this weird competition about who's the better child.

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