Comments | thymelady: Writer's Block: Pecking Order

thymelady

Writer's Block: Pecking Order

Aug 19, 2009 14:35

I'm so stupidly the youngest by far. Both parents had been married before and all my siblings are half-brothers and half-sisters. And there is a bunch of them... I was spoiled, but of course. But I also felt left behind. Today, one of my sisters is very close to me. We have been this close for five years now, she is 15 years my senior. I never knew ( Read more... )

family, background, writer's block

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mopphead August 19 2009, 14:08:13 UTC

I'm a one and only - I'd like to think that my parents felt they couldn't improve upon perfection, but think it had more to do with the fact that it took them an awful long time to get around to having me ( ... )

thymelady August 19 2009, 22:09:44 UTC

I can relate to that so well! Being last, it was sometimes very much like being the only child. And having to amuse oneself meant reading! :-D Weren't we the lucky ones!

What you wrote: "Both parents have now died and there is no-one with whom I share common history or memories - if I can't remember something from my childhood, it now stays lost forever."

Exactly so! Hits me square in the chest. Siblings can't fill that place either, they were not around enough. Well said, Mopphead.

Fill up a pew, LOL! You never know. Your kids may have laaaarge families! :-)