## The First Witness: Why the Brother-Sister Bond is Life’s Greatest AnchorThere is a specific kind of silence that exists only between a brother and a sister. It isn't the heavy silence of strangers or the polite silence of friends; it is a resonant, knowing quiet. It’s the silence of two people who have seen the same ghosts in the hallway of a childhood home, who have heard the same floorboards creak under the weight of their parents' arguments, and who have shared the secret language of eye-rolls across a crowded dinner table.To have a sibling of the opposite gender