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ALYCE & CAROLINE TRAN

SISTERS

As a seven-year-old, Alyce Tran (left) was not the jealous or jaded type. “I was incredibly excited the day Caroline was born,” she says. “As the story goes, my mum had been so horrified by my labour that she didn’t want to have any more children – but eventually she felt sorry for me as an only child, so I finally got a sister.” From that day forth, Caroline recalls being “obsessed” with her elder sibling. “I never wanted to leave her so I’d pull my mattress into her bedroom and sleep there.”

Over the years, the pair’s age gap has evened out (they often get mistaken for twins), and they’ve both grown into successful businesswomen – Alyce as

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