A NEW STUDY FROM ENGLAND told us something we already knew: That having a sister makes people happy (and brothers, well…not so). Big surprise: Families with sisters are more willing to discuss feelings, and did better after crises such as marital break-ups, says a study of 571 subjects from 17 to 25 years old interviewed by the British Psychological Society, to be presented today in Brighton, according to the BBC.
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No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men. 
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Boohoo, I don’t have a sister. I always wanted one but have to make do with a brother. Bother!
Welcome, Yolanda. We can lend you one if you’d like (tee hee). I suspect you have many stand-in sisters in the sisterhood of gardening and elsewhere in life, no? See you soon again.
I suspect I know which sister she’s willing to lend, too, Yolanda…Ha!