stepsister
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Dealing with my mother and my stepsister is exhausting and causes me a lot of anxiety.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026
Hahn: It’s interesting, Mark, because I’ve always felt kind of like basically just invited to the party, so I always have felt like the messy stepsister on the outside looking in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
I could relate to those feelings of shame and despair she felt when she realized she was the stepsister.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
Baena's surviving family includes his mother Barbara Stern and stepfather Roger Stern; father Scott and stepmother Michele Baena; brother Brad Baena; stepsister Bianca Gabay and stepbrother Jed Fluxman.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2025
She could show her stepsister the medallion in her pocket, but Ana would only think she had stolen it.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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They were stepsisters who hadn’t seen each other since they were little girls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Despite the family's efforts to protect them, her younger stepsisters found out that their father and mother were trapped under the rubble from other children at school.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2025
She also defends his humanity to Louis’s nasty daughters, who make the evil stepsisters in Disney’s “Cinderella” seem understated.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
It can be an ordeal, watching directors force Shakespearean rethinks into contemporary settings, the way Cinderella’s stepsisters try to cram their feet into an ill-fitting slipper.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2022
Ash almost missed her visit entirely, because she had been forced to go into Rook Hill with her stepmother and stepsisters.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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