Midge and Dixie:
The Carter Sisters

The day was warm, the air fragrant with the scent of flowers. Four-year-old Midge Helen, and her six-year-old sister, Dixie Virginia, nicknamed Diddie, were planning a major social event.

They raided Mother's closet for pretty, colorful scarves, and tied some around their waists, draping others over the peach trees to fancy up the garden. With exquisite care they laid out tiny cups and saucers brought home from the toy department of Daddy's big store in town. Then, with great ceremony, they invited Gina, their mother, and Mama Carter, their grandmother, to join them for tea and lemonade.

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Clementine and Melba:
The Moorman Sisters

Nine-year-old Melba Smith and ten-year-old Clementine Moorman became sisters when Melba's mother, a nightclub singer, married her accompanist, Clem's widowed father. The concept of "stepsisters" never even entered their family.

"It would never occur to me to tell people we were stepsisters," Clem says today, and Melba agrees. "We just don't relate that way."

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Anna Margaret and Hannah Marie:
The Klales Sisters

Once upon a time their was a six-year-old girl named Anna who looked just like a Pre-Raphaelite principessa. Anna lived with her parents in a big house near the woods, and although she was happy drawing and coloring by herself, sometimes she was just a tiny bit lonely for a playmate. Then, one day, her mother had wonderful news. She was going to have a baby!

"Well, it had better be a sister," said Anna. "If it's a boy, we'll give it away."

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