2. "my mother was 32. my father was 36. I think their ages had a large" In response to Reply # 0
impact on the way I was raised. Many of my friends had parents in their mid thirty's when we were teens and they could so stuff that I could not. Their parents were okay with things that mine where not. I didn't think about the age factor until I became and adult.
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It was more unusual when I was born. I grew up with everyone thinking she was my grandmother. I was all, "if you think SHE's old, you should see GRANNY"
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and I have a sister 3 years older...so Mom was sixteen then. Oh and a brother fifteen years younger, all from the same marriage. What were they thinking?
Not sure how they did it, but they did good by us.
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