Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrates Sisters by Jack Canfield

Author:Jack Canfield [Canfield, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781453279557
Publisher: Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing
Published: 2012-09-21T19:04:00+00:00

THE WAGON

Last month on her sixty-third birthday, I reminded my sister of the following incident. She asked if I remembered it or if it were just part of our family lore. I’m not sure, but I do remember a ride in our red wagon.

Adored by her parents, aunts and uncles, for the first sixteen months of her life my elder sister basked in the attention that is showered on an only child. Then I arrived on the scene, and she had to divide that attention with a red-faced, bawling little creature who needed quiet times for sleep and craved to be held in her mother’s arms.

As we grew older, we often fought over rights to panda bears and other toys meant for our mutual enjoyment. Exasperated by our constant bickering, my parents finally told my sister, “If you can’t play nice and share the toys with your little sister, we’re going to give Beverly away to your cousin Jerry.”

My sister knew a good thing when she heard it. One day as I continued to encroach on her territory, she put me in our little red wagon and began to pull it along the sidewalk. Coming to a corner she was not supposed to cross by herself, she waited. Our mother came running down to the street corner, yelling, “Stop!” After she caught her breath, she asked my sister, “Marilyn, where are you going?”

“I’m taking Bee to Jerry’s house; he can have her!”

Beverly McLaggan

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