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Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.

My parents waited to have me and my sister - my dad was 43 when my mother had me, and my mom was 38. They purposefully waited until they had had their adventures in life so that we wouldn't represent the end of their freedom.

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.