... you were embarrassed to have a sibling age gap?
Yeh its a weird feeling, my older sister felt a bit embarrassed by me too growing up so we were estranged. It also didn't help that I would get teased as well in school.
By the time I was born she was already an adult who had started university, we had nothing in common then and we still don't really. I will never have a traditional siblings relationship with my older sister. Even now I'm closer to my nieces and nephews ages than I am to her so you wouldn't understand until you've had a huge age gap. That's why I would personally never have kids with huge huge age gaps. It sucked.
I love the story but the parents pissed me off at the end?? Like having another kid just cause their eldest is gay? Also the age gap is so weird, I had one nearly as big with my older sister and it was so awkward and embarrassing growing up.