What does it mean "to have claim over something"?

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This is a sentence from the book Everything I Know About Love:

I thought we had claim over each other’s twenties before we’d inevitably have to give the other one up.

lbf · Answer

claim (something) for (oneself or something)  TDF an idiom

To declare something as one's property or jurisdiction.

In this case it appear to reference youth or the age of the twenties.

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