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** Wendy Torrance in ''[[The Shining]]'' lost her sister Eileen when she was run over by a car: Eileen was six, Wendy ten at the time. Wendy thinks that's probably the reason her mother became such an insufferable bitch.
** Older sibling variant: in ''[[Pet Sematary]]'', Rachel witnessed her ten-year-old sister's terminal illness and death when she was eight, leaving her phobic about even mention of death.
* Inverted in ''[[Harry Potter and
* ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'': Fan Scrooge, who is said to have [[Death by Childbirth|died in childbirth]] in some film adaptations. This event triggered/hastened Ebenezer's downward spiral into miserdom, and he especially hates his nephew/her son Fred for it.
** Fan was named after Dickens' older sister Fanny, who, ironically, died of tuberculosis five years after the book was published, and had a crippled son who was the inspiration for Tiny Tim.
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