I don’t try to treat my girls as though their natures are already determined. I sometimes wonder how many kids turn into particular kids because from day one they were slotted as “the good one” or “the smart one” or “the fussy one.”
However, having two children of the same age growing up in the same environment, I have seen just how much personalities can differ from very early on. While I will try to never label only one as “good” or “smart” – people can be good and smart in many different ways – I do, from time to time, like to think of how they might be in the future…
I see Brenna, the monster goof; the instigator, getting her sister into trouble; who, as she gets older, will break hearts and not realize until later the ramifications of the power she yields over others.
I see Morrigan, so sensitive; the one whose heart will get broken; who will be more attached to me in the beginning but, after some years, will turn on me almost overnight, our relationship becoming careful and tumultuous, because we are so alike.
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