August 15, 2026 — 8:00pm

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When Rose Mitchell was 10, she felt like she became a parent.

“The minute he was born, something shifted within me,” she said of her brother Daniel Rata. From that day on, for decades, the pair were inseparable.

Now, no matter how often she visits her brother, it never feels like enough.

“I carry a lot of guilt with having my own independent life away from him,” she said. “I struggle with balancing being that caretaker for him … with trying to find my own identity outside of being his sister.”

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