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[quote=Anonymous]My mother grew up in a very idyllic-sounding situation in another country. My grandfather was a physician with a clinic on the first floor of their home, which was huge. My grandmother stayed at home. There was a constant stream of friends, relatives, and hired help around my grandparents' 8 kids. Except one of the maids molested my uncle, and my mother's obvious mental illness was largely ignored in all the hullabaloo. There was 0 privacy, a lot of the children were basically raising themselves, and relatives were intimately involved in literally every aspect of everyone's lives. It's so easy to idealize something we are no longer familiar with, but I don't look at my mother's upbringing as something to idealize. There was a lot falling through the cracks.[/quote]
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