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" 1. She broke in your parents for you. Good old &amp;quot;first-born child syndrome.&amp;quot; By the time you were breaking the rules, your parents were like, &amp;quot;Eh, whatever, your sister stayed out late and she turned out fine.&amp;quot; 2. She gave you rides to the mall and random parties so you didn&amp;#039;t have to get a ride from your mom. Showing up in a beat-up car with your pretty college-age sister listening to Britney Spears? Cool. Showing up in a minivan with your mom listening to Creedence? Significantly less cool. 3. She taught you how to use a tampon, even if she rolled her eyes at you before doing it. No, you don&amp;#039;t leave the applicator in, you silly little pup. *hugs* 4. She introduced you to the best new music before any of your friends were listening to it and let you tag along to concerts with her friends. Like your mom would&amp;#039;ve ever let you go to Outkast&amp;#039;s Stankonia tour if your sister wasn&amp;#039;t going. 5. She gave you makeup way before your mom would&amp;#039;ve let you wear it. NO, I DIDN&amp;#039;T TAKE YOUR MASCARA. *bats luxurious black eyelashes* 6. She picked you up when you&amp;#039;d been drinking at a party and scolded you but didn&amp;#039;t tell your parents. And let&amp;#039;s be honest, a scolding from your admirable older sister is so much more shameful than anything your parents could say anyway. 7. She got you your first job. And like three jobs after that. If it weren&amp;#039;t for my older sister, I would be drinking G&amp;amp;amp;Ts with breakfast and working at a karaoke bar in central Iowa. Although actually, now that I write that out, it sounds pretty fun... 8. Her hand-me-downs are nice clothes that you couldn&amp;#039;t afford yet because she&amp;#039;s a Mature Adult. Also, &amp;quot;But she wears them!&amp;quot; is the proven best way to get your parents to let you buy low-rise jeans. 9. She chastised you for pretty much everything, but now you know that it was just to toughen you up. And you know what? You should play with your hair less. 10. She always defended you when someone picked on you at school, even if she never acknowledged you otherwise. All it takes is one older girl who already has breasts to shut down a catty seventh-grade rumor. 11. If you got into a fight with your parents, she&amp;#039;d be the mediator. But she was always mooooostly on your side. #SistersBefore ... Parents? 12. She&amp;#039;d give you great advice on applying to colleges since, you know, she did that already. And, unlike your parents, she recognized how important, ahem, student life was. 13. She gives you the best advice on dating, boys, and people who are mean to you. She&amp;#039;s a backstabber, he&amp;#039;s not going to commit, and you should call him back, he was nice. Any questions? 14. Even if you both messed up, she took the blame because she&amp;#039;s supposed to be more ~*ReSpOnSiBle*~. You feel kind of bad about it, but it&amp;#039;s also just so sweet and comforting that she cares about you that much. 15. She gave you your first fake ID (her old driver&amp;#039;s license/passport). It just made freshman year of college that much easier. 16. She&amp;#039;ll be the best maid of honor ever. She&amp;#039;s already been to a million awful bachelorette parties and has planned her own wedding, and she will do whatever it takes to make sure you have the best. 17. She&amp;#039;s the first one to have kids, so the pressure is off you to procreate. But when you do, you&amp;#039;ll move in next door and your kids will be best friends?! RELATED: 11 Ways Little Sisters Make Your Life Better Follow Emma on Twitter. Photo credit: Instagram "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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