the favorite child gets the attention - and that is no surprise the favorite child gets his first car for free gets the toys he wants gets the college bond they also get the father’s dreams that he never achieved forced upon them the mother’s religion handcuffing them to a church pew the parents mistakes as being first time parents acting as salt in the wounds the favorite child is hawkeyed under a microscope and never learns how to be alone while the other child develops an imagination and lives in freedom while walking through the remnants of battlefields the favorite child has already fought