I never wanted my dad to remarry. The idea of replacing my mom seemed absurd to me, but he went ahead and did it anyway. I don’t know how he could possibly have ever thought that I would accept them into my world, though. I didn’t want a new mom, and I certainly didn’t want a stepbrother stealing away my only living parent’s attention. I vowed to myself on the day that they got married that I … would always be better than him, that I would always outshine my stepbrother in every way that I could, so that my…
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