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Shortly after he finished the sixth grade, Ben Elliot's family situation changed dramatically. That summer, he and his mother moved from New York City to Pennsylvania with his soon-to-be-stepdad and stepsiblings. Before that, Ben had lived with just his mother and father. For Ben, the challenge of sharing space and attention with a new brother and sister was sometimes difficult.
"It was definitely a weird transition to suddenly be living with two other kids," Ben, now an 11th-grader at George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania, tells Choices. "We'd bicker a lot when we first started living together."
