telling someone for the first time that I have a twin. And people get so excited. Like, they love to hear that. They're like, oh, my God. Like, well, what's it like? And I always kind of have to preface it by being like, oh, well, you know, it's actually like pretty dark. This is death, sex, and money. Brothers got a hug. The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

Mr. You had better shape up or you will miss your sister's wedding.

Promise?

And need to talk about more.

In a nutshell, I hate my brother.

I'm in a sale.

I was born three months premature, and I have a twin sister who's a quadriplegic.

This is Alex Sugarman.

She sent us a voice memo about her sister, Katie, who has cerebral palsy.

She's wheelchair-bound.

She can't feed herself.

She is pretty highly intellectually functioning.

And every time I reach sort of another milestone in my adult life, it feels like something that she can't ever get to.

Alex was responding to our call for stories about siblings and how your relationships have

changed as you've grown up.

I asked Alex to come to our studio to talk with me more about her relationship with her twin

sister.

Oof.

God, it's been really hard.

Alex and her twin sister, Katie, grew up outside New York City.

Their lives were very different from the start.

All throughout growing up, it was very clear that we had, like, separate lives.

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