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People want the Zodiac, because the Zodiac is friendly and harmless. There's no "bad" sign to be born under.

Birth order, on the other hand, is something wholly out of your control with substantial rammifications. They aren't always pretty rammifications. People don't really like to hear about that sort of thing.

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Ehh, first and last are both pretty good. Only middle is slightly problematic, and the middle children of the world can band together and whine about their victim status.

/youngest of three

I would imagine people should want to know that birth order can have profound effects on their personality and disposition: then they can try to actively counteract or encourage those tendencies. What you're not aware of, you can't change.

What you aren't aware of can't be used to describe your victim status.

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