This is the Bryan Lair Show, I'm WNYC, I'm Bridget Virgin, Philly Inn for Bryan today,

and now we're going to wrap up today's show with a segment about siblings.

After when we think of our oldest pals, we think of someone we met in the first day of

kindergarten or maybe that smiling face from our fourth grade soccer team or our high school

lab partner, but for many of us, the peers who have known us the longest are people who

don't remember meeting because there are siblings.

Listeners, we want to hear from you about your sibling relationships.

How have they changed through the years?

Do you think of your siblings as friends or confidants or maybe have you drifted apart

in adulthood?

Have big life changes like raising children or losing a shared loved one changed how

you relate to each other or does it feel the same as ever?

What defines your relationships to your siblings and how have they changed?

Call us at 212-433-9692, that's 212-433-WNYC, you can also text us at that number.

Where to talk with us about those relationships is Angela Chen, a journalist who has written

about science and culture and she recently published a piece in the Atlantic entitled

the longest relationships of our lives about sibling relationships, the impact they can

have, and how they change in adulthood.

Angela, welcome to the show, thank you so much.

And Angela, you talked to a number of experts for this piece.

What did they have to say about what defines sibling relationships?

As you mentioned, one of the things which I think many people didn't really think about

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