When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!'
I didn't wake up one day and think, 'I'm not going to have children.' My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen.
When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.
I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.
A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'
I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
For months, my parents had been trying to prepare me for the arrival of a real sibling. They had given me a doll to play with and encouraged me to take care of her. And when the baby, a little boy they named Rahm, finally arrived, they encouraged me to help take care of him, too.
When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.
Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'