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remember that you will be the one who has to spend time with your new sisters!
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This is excellent advice in many areas of life. For example, there's "tent talk" in graduate school admissions, too. I got into an ultra-elite graduate program at "XYZ University" that's everyone's first choice -- except mine. Many of my college classmates applied and didn't get in, and they were putting a lot of pressure on me to go there: "No one turns them down! I can't believe you're even considering saying no!" I was sick to my stomach worrying because I knew I preferred a different university, but everyone was telling me that I was crazy to turn down an opportunity to go to that program at XYZ.
Finally my mother said to me, "You know all these people who are pushing you to go to XYZ? They won't be there to cheer you up when you are lonely and miserable at XYZ next year." That really woke me up. It's ME who has to live with the consequences of this decision, not them. So it's easy for them to push me where I don't want to go. And I turned down XYZ.
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