Dear Alexandra,

My sister, my once inseparable best friend, greatest role model, biggest hero, my should have been twin… Funny how things change, huh? I honestly can’t believe you have turned out to be such a bitter, cold hearted, self centered bitch, for lack of better words. You really are the type of person that I hate. I don’t know how or when you got this way, but it’s sickening. You don’t have any friends, you treat everyone like crap, you think the whole world owes you and you’re just not a nice person anymore. And it kills me to say this, but when I move, I won’t ask you to come visit and I will pay you no mind. I have no intentions of coming back this way to see you or anyone else in our family for that matter. I have done nothing but improve myself and all you can do is talk down to me. So what if I’m not living my life the way you sought it to be? I’m doing me and that’s what should make you proud. I’m doing what’s best for me. I know you’re just bitter because you’re not even 21 and already $17,000 in debt, and I’m over here sittin’ pretty going on vacations with my boyfriend. Which you also disapprove of. Like I care that you think my boyfriend is a lowlife? Like I care that you think our age difference is too much? If I cared, I’d put up a fight about it. But I don’t care. I don’t care what you think or say, you are ignorant and arrogant, and I don’t care for your opinion. I have tried too hard for too long to live up to your standards and be the you that Mom wanted me to be and I’ve had enough. Finally I broke free of your fucking shadow and I’m happy. I am actually happy and I don’t really give a fuck that you can’t be happy for me. For once I’m not there to make you look better by being the ugly one, the lesser one… And that probably eats you up inside. But you’re just going to have to get used to it because I will never, and you can mark my words, NEVER fall back into your shadow again. I am Andrea, not Alexandra. I am Andrea and I am my own person. Someday you’ll realize you fucked up and it will be my call as to whether I forgive you or not. But just a heads up, I probably won’t forgive you.

Fuck you,

Andrea.