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Dec. 27th, 2006 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astralis"I know. My sister-by-marriage is rather like that, though she's better than she used to be. It's a thing you often grow out of," Mary-Lou replied.
"Your sister-by-marriage?" Audrey gasped.
"Yes; her dad married my mother. We aren't real sisters and we're not stepsisters, of course. That was as near to it as we could come. See?"
From The Chalet School Wins the Trick.
I think I'm missing something here. How are Mary-Lou and Verity-Anne not stepsisters?
"Your sister-by-marriage?" Audrey gasped.
"Yes; her dad married my mother. We aren't real sisters and we're not stepsisters, of course. That was as near to it as we could come. See?"
From The Chalet School Wins the Trick.
I think I'm missing something here. How are Mary-Lou and Verity-Anne not stepsisters?
