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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a 3rd.  My brother was the oldest.  My sister is 1.5 years younger and the two of the are close.  I am 5 years younger than my sister.  When my siblings went to college, I was still in middle school and ended up spending a lot of time with my parents.  I hung around with my parents and their friends often on weekends and I learned our family tongue.  My siblings can understand if we speak to them, but I am the only one that is fluent.  I am also more bicultural for our family heritage than my siblings.  That is one of the reasons that I am closest to my mom even though I'm a guy.   My mother always thought she would be closest to her daughter and she is close, just closer with me because of the language and cultural ties.  I also acquired my mother's love of cooking and that bonds us as well.

That said, my parents were amazing parents.  They managed to convince all three of us that we were their favorites.  My brother is the eldest first-born son, so from the family patriarchal heritage, he *KNOWS* he's their favorite.  My sister is the only girl and she was always Daddy's girl and  she KNOWS that she was my parents favorite.  But I am their baby and the one that is culturally more like them and the one that speaks to them in their mother tongue, so I know that I'm the favorite.  And, of course, I know that I'm right and they are wrong.   :D [/quote]

I love this! I hope my 3 kids all feel they are my favorite [/quote]

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