Ann Patchett
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, when my parents brought me home from the hospital, she's three and a half years older than I am, she immediately broke out in a horrible case of hives and she didn't really get rid of them until she was 40.
So what I was always doing my whole life was knocking on her door and going, hey, hi, hi, I'm your sister.
You want to come out and play?
You want to do something?
You want to have some fun?
And she would slam the door.
But with just sheer force of will and good cheer, I wore her down.
And we are really, really close now.
And it's very nice.
That was so important to my father.
My father used to just preach that all the time.
You have one sister.
You've got to be there for each other.
You are not allowed to hate each other.
And we were like, but we do.
We do hate each other.
And then we got through it.
But it took half of our life to get through it.
It's really true.