I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.…

Maya Angelou
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I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. ✨ Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). Conversations with Maya Angelou
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I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. ✨ Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). Conversations with Maya Angelou

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