First Born
King of Everything
Frozen Hell Blvd
High Horse, TN 04161
Dear First,
Our estrangement is undoubtedly my fault and deserves an apology.
I’m sorry you’re an arrogant and judgmental prick, and apologize our familial relationship precludes addressing you as “motherfucker” or “son of a bitch.”
Sincerely,
The Other One
The Week 12 Trifextra challenge for this weekend was to write a letter of apology, fact or fiction, using only 33 words – excluding addresses, salutations and closings.
Thin spiral notebook 
Bwahahahahhaha. I know how good it felt for you to write this and my eyebrows went up with those words there. Not just a mommy blogger from Florida, are you? 😉
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Oh man – I love the address, too. The part about the familal relationship made me initially think this was firstborn’s mother, but then ‘the other one’ made me realize “OH. Younger sibling.”
It’s funny. When evil sib and I were kids (and you can tell a lot about our relationship by her nickname), she was just a pain in the butt little sister. It’s those years I feel guilty for. And I wasn’t a particularly horrid older sister, just not a very great one, either. And the guilt doesn’t run that deep. But I used to swear that I would favor my oldest kid to make up for all the favoritisim showered upon her.
Of course, now that I have kids, the one I find myself sticking up for most often is the tyrant of a younger child. My kids are actually very close emotionally, and I am so happy to see that their relationship is much closer to what my husband describes as his relationship with his sisters. Squabbly, but loving, and totally there for each other. Me? If evil sib was still alive, I’d so write a letter like this one to ‘last born’.
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When my kids were younger, they had a hard time getting along. I think that was more because of the 4 year age difference and their totally different personalities. Now, they are close and get along great.
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Um, I’m the first born. What are you saying? The family babies have it the easiest.
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I’m saying this family baby didn’t…
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Every dynamic is different. My parents were great. But their baby is the golden one. 🙂
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My parents were great too, never compared us kids to each other. But, we have never been close or gotten along well.
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Ugh. As a mother, I’ve compared my kids so many times. Yes, I suck.
Oh, well. At least I’ve given them plenty of fodder for their memoirs.
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Yeowsers 🙂
Apology
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