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 had to bring Clara with her on marketing days, but though her stepsister now controlled the purse, she did little else to restrict her.
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
Survivors include a son from his first marriage, William Jr.; two stepbrothers; two stepsisters; and three grandchildren.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2022
That night, while her father and stepmother and stepsisters sat together in the parlor, exclaiming over the gifts he had brought them from Seatown, Ash slipped away from them all.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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