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reappeared and placed the napkins.
Minutes before the guests arrived,
Mom noticed that next to each plate
was one of her sanitary napkins.
—Paula Chomiuk Novi, Michigan

The Escape Artist
When my four-year-old brother
bolted from the yard for the ump-
teenth time, my worried parents

put up a fence. Didn’t work—Chris

learned how to climb over it. So

Mom came up with the idea of tying

one end of a long rope to his belt

loop and the other end to the fence.

It worked splendidly, until Chris

removed his pants and climbed

over the fence.

—Donna Holter

Centennial, Colorado

stomach.” I didn’t touch

another brussels sprout

until two years ago, and

I’m in my mid-50s!

—Kimberly Gautieri

cranford, new jersey

✦ I was a toddler taking

a bath when my older

sister pulled the plug

and shouted, “Look out,

Debbie! You’re going

down the drain!” Sixty

years later, I’m still

scared of drains.

—Deb Knight

honolulu, hawaii

✦Just days before

my brother’s third

birthday, I let him in

on a secret: “Do you

know what happens

when you turn three?

You turn into a girl.”

His eyes grew big. “It’s

true. It happened to

me. It happened to

Mom.” For the next few

days, whenever Mom

mentioned his birthday,

he burst into tears.

—Kendra Liedle

los angeles, california

Lies My Siblings

Told Me

✦When I was little,
my older brother told
me if you ate the
bottom part of a
banana, you would die.
To this day, I still don’t
eat the bottom inch of
the banana.

—Jacqueline Rowley
loyal, wisconsin

✦My brother told
me that every time
it rained, God was
crying because
I was so ugly.
—buzzfeed.com

✦I was six and just
about to eat my brussels
sprouts when my older
sister leaned over and
told me, “If you eat
those, they’ll turn into
heads of lettuce in your

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