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One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

I had a family that supported me.

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.

Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.

War tore my family apart.

That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.

I have a bunch of brothers. I grew up with a big family.

My father and brothers were in the military.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.