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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I doubt this is what you want to hear, but... I missed having a sibling desperately. When I look back on my childhood, it's me playing alone quietly or reading. [b]I always wanted a playmate and didn't live in a kid friendly neighborhood.[/b]  I swore I would marry into a large family, but that didn't happen either. I worry that my kids won't have any cousins, and they only have one aunt. I had 14 aunts/uncles and 20 some cousins that I spent summers with (my cousins now are more focused on their own nieces/nephews).

On the pro side, I'm extremely close to my parents and didn't have to fight for attention. They moved to our city when we had kids so they could be there for everything. [/quote]

I grew up in a city, so the neighborhood was full of kids my age. Many were my classmates. Two of my best friends had siblings. One had an older sister who wanted some privacy with her boyfriend and always kicked us out of the apartment. The other had a younger sister who required a lot of babysitting. I did not lament being a rather independent free-range only with many playmates. I have a total of five living aunts and one uncle (plus their spouses). I have seven living cousins (plus their spouses). I don't talk to any of them. One aunt that lives near my mom skypes once in a while to gawk at DC. I have never met four out of seven cousins, because they live like two days away by planes, trains, and automobiles. So there's that.

Then I see people at work, mothers and daughters working together, riding together, families gathering for the 4th of July. Gossiping about each other behind each other's back. The grass is always greener and all that. [/quote]

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