that something as well from your own personal life or your friends around you?

Yeah.

I would say it feels like it's sort of a mix of me and my brother and my close friend and her sister, which I observed at close range.

So my brother did go away to school when I was in middle school.

I don't remember.

I mean, I didn't have... exactly the experience of like calling him and not getting a response or anything like that but it certainly affected my life in ways I don't think I could articulate at the time and um changed our dynamic in the house and all of that um so yeah I was definitely drawing on that um and I am really close with my brother so that's nice though we weren't all that close during that period because I think it's I think it's just hard to be close when you're at that age and you're like so just like in your own head about everything um so we weren't like squabbling but that was more because he wasn't living in the house and um i was always really jealous of my friend who had an older sister because their relationship was really like they they fought a little but it was very sweet ultimately so yeah it's a mix of those

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