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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know if this anecdote hurts or helps, since I am in such a different place, but I hope the latter. I have always (secretly) been very glad that I don't have brothers. Because my father - who was very close to his dad - was at least a little wistful not to have any boys and instead had a passel of daughters. He loved us very much, but I knew he kind of wanted a son. And it was because he didn't have a son that he had to work out his father/son ambitions on his daughters - take us fishing and hunting and hiking and play basketball with us and urge us to medical school and law school. As the most boy-ish of the lot, I have always suspected that the appearance of an actual son would have taken some of that away from me. And, I kind of think that if they had had another child (a 5th) and it had turned out to be a boy, he would have been heaped up with more expectations about father/son bonding than can possibly be healthy.[/quote]
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