Dear Seaturtle:

“Kind of funny, my dad and I shared a mother, in a way. Although she had 7 boys, my dad being the oldest boy… I became my grandma’s little girl she always wanted. So although the same mom as my dad I am sure she treated me with more favor.“- your father was her 2nd child and first boy. Six boys and 21 years later, you were born, and, in practice, you became her long-awaited 2nd girl. I imagine she did indeed treat you, when you were growing up, differently than she treated her first boy, when he was growing up, a few decades earlier.

She treated all 8 children somewhat differently, and treated you perhaps most differently.

I didn’t know until you shared today that you spent so much time with your grandmother: how did she treat you?

anita