Navigating Sibling Dynamics: A First-Person Narrative
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Non-fiction First Person Narrative
Five years down the line, and I still remember that Wednesday, the 14th day of December 2015, like it, was yesterday. I had just spent three days at home after breaking from school for my December holiday. My mother is a nurse, and my father, a lawyer, makes their stay at home quite limited. Not even over the weekend can my parents' presence at home be guaranteed. For this reason, I had to spend most of my time with my brother, who resides at home, having rejected an offer to be taken to a boarding school. My mother is the kind of parent who plans what house chores the sons if at home, must attend to before she gets back home from work. Besides my mum’s planned house chores, my father subjects us to a daily one-hour physical exercise which becomes recorded for his reference upon coming back home from his ever engaged working schedule. My brother is very welcoming and always makes me feel at home every time I break for holidays. I did not think by any chance he can be holding grudges on me until that Wednesday morning when I tried waking him for his hand in the kitchen chores as I attended the family kitchen garden.
That Wednesday, I did not get back to bed after my mum left for work at 6.30 Am. At first, I thought it was too early to wake my brother, thus gave him time to sleep, assuming that by the time I
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