Love extends far beyond romantic love and comes in several forms.
According to the Ancient Greeks, there are eight kinds of love: eros, the romantic love; philia, affectionate love; pragma, enduring love; storge, familiar love; ludus, playful love; mania, obsessive love; philautia, self-love; and agape, selfless love.
While Valentine’s Day’s focus is often on eros or romantic love, other forms of love can be celebrated during the holiday.
One of the loves that can be celebrated can be philia or affectionate love. Also referred to as brotherly love, philia can be celebrated by those with sibling-like love, whether biologically or not.
For Maddison Bosch, junior, and Angellina Bosch, freshman, this love is present as they both attend Winthrop University.
The age difference between the sisters is thirteen months and the pair also have younger brothers, Dominic and Noah.
The two say that due to being so close in age, they feel so close.
“A lot of the time I don’t actually feel like the older sister,” Maddison says.
The sisters have always been close, even through childhood.
“We still fight. We’re still close,” Angellina says.
“We shared a room for the first thirteen years of Angellina’s life so closeness and fighting are implied,” Maddison followed
“Nothing [has changed] except for the fact that we don’t share a room anymore. We still fight, we still watch the same movies and shows and read the same books. And most of the time, we even end up wearing similar clothes”, Angellina said.
“We’re pretty alike”, Maddison stated.
“We have similar interests,” Angellina followed.
“Angellina’s more artsy and stylish than me though.”
“And she can write, I can’t do that”, Angellina complimented.
When asked, Angellina said her favorite memory of her sister includes the time she kicked Maddison in the teeth when the elder sister tickled her.
“You’re welcome for the dollar, by the way,” Angellina said. “Seriously though, my favorite memory is when we were around five? And we made a tent in our living room out of bedsheets and ate junk food and watched ‘Adventures of the Gummi Bears.’”
Meanwhile, Maddison’s favorite memory of them together was, “when I was eight and Lini was seven, we got a swingset for Christmas, and we ran out to play in our pajamas and socks even though it was cold and wet. That was a good day, I liked that.”
With their relationship with their brothers, Angellina says “Yes, we are close to our other siblings. Maybe not in the same way because of the age gap, but we get along. We hang out, we play video games. We have a playlist! We’re close.”
While Maddison and Angellina are only thirteen months apart, their younger brothers have a much larger gap.
“Dominic is fourteen,” Maddison stated.
“And he’s our resident gamer-skater boy,” Angellina followed.
“Noah likes martial arts and video games,” the elder said.
“He’s eleven. No, he’s seven years younger than me. He’s twelve.”
“I also thought he was eleven. He’s eleven in my head for some reason,” Maddison followed.
The sisters spend a lot of time together. Their favorite things to do together are book shopping and watching shows like “Legend of Vox Machina,” “Sherlock,” and “The Witcher.” They also enjoy getting Starbucks together.
When asked what the best thing about each other was, Maddison answered, “That’s hard. I like a lot of things about her.
Angellina had a more specific answer, “If I had to pick one… I’d say your ability to quote Vines and insert them into every situation. There are many other things, but that’s the feature standing out in my head right now.”
“I like that she’s strong-willed and hot-headed, honestly. And I like her art”, Maddison said.
Angellina followed, “I like that she’s tiny. She’s pocket-sized for my convenience. No, seriously, I like that she’s such a nerd about things, but in a rational way. It’s less like, ‘oh cool a dragon,’ and more like ‘do you wanna hear a fun fact? That dragon comes from this story in mythology…”
Maddison, an English major, and Angellina, a fine arts major, say attending Winthrop together has made their bond equally strong as it was before.
“Since I knew Maddison was attending Winthrop there was a level of comfort, but in all honesty, Winthrop was closer and cheaper than my other options,” Angellina said about attending college with her sister.
“I was an added bonus,” Maddison followed.
The sisters stated that they treat each other equally and have lots of fun together as well.
“I love her”, Maddison said.
Angellina followed, “This is what sibling love looks like.”
