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<p>[QUOTE="bercrystal, post: 252298, member: 88"]<i>My great-great-grandfather had 12 children with wife #1. She passed and he had 12 more by wife #2. 24 kids that survived.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I am not sure if I have ever said that I come from a family of 9 children. I was the baby of the family. My Father called me the caboose since he worked on the railroad for around 28 years. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> We were of course raised Catholic, but I have come to believe that was my Father's idea. My Mother was never the church goer, but she definitely made sure all of our butts were there every Sunday. We also all went to parochial school till the 8th grade & I went to an all girls Catholic high school. There were several other families that were as large or larger so we never thought it was strange to be in this large of a family.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a very strange conversation that happened one day when we were all adults. My Mother announced very casually that if the birth control pill had been around that some of us might never been born. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> That really kind of hit home with my sister who was 4 years older than I was & myself. I never doubted that my Mother loved me but I am just a little bit younger than she was at the time & I can now understand the possible feelings behind the statement. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bercrystal, post: 252298, member: 88"][I]My great-great-grandfather had 12 children with wife #1. She passed and he had 12 more by wife #2. 24 kids that survived.[/I] I am not sure if I have ever said that I come from a family of 9 children. I was the baby of the family. My Father called me the caboose since he worked on the railroad for around 28 years. :happy::happy: We were of course raised Catholic, but I have come to believe that was my Father's idea. My Mother was never the church goer, but she definitely made sure all of our butts were there every Sunday. We also all went to parochial school till the 8th grade & I went to an all girls Catholic high school. There were several other families that were as large or larger so we never thought it was strange to be in this large of a family. There was a very strange conversation that happened one day when we were all adults. My Mother announced very casually that if the birth control pill had been around that some of us might never been born. :jawdrop::jawdrop::jawdrop: That really kind of hit home with my sister who was 4 years older than I was & myself. I never doubted that my Mother loved me but I am just a little bit younger than she was at the time & I can now understand the possible feelings behind the statement. :):)[/QUOTE]
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