This is my favorite picture of myself. I am an only child, which is what I have always been. I have always been a shy child, and I always wondered what it would be like to be able to just say hello and go right from there, and really get to know you. This picture is so close. I am absolutely not an only child.
I am an only child. I am the oldest of six children. I have a brother, a sister, and two brothers-in-law. My youngest brother is not a complete stranger to me. In fact, he is sort of my brother. I have three sisters. My oldest sister is just a few weeks younger than me, but I consider her my elder sister, because she is the one who raised me.
The only sibling I have left from my father is my brother. I only have two older sisters, and I still consider them as my siblings. I have three younger siblings. I have a sister-in-law, and a niece. My sister-in-law is very close to my parents, and she is not a stranger to me either. I have three younger sisters.
But I can’t think of a sibling who is closer to me than a brother. It’s like I have two brothers out of three sisters. Of course, that’s just how I’d like to think, but it’s not how everybody would like to think, since I have many sisters who are closer to me than a brother.
This is why the phrase “brotherhood of brothers” doesn’t quite register with me. Of course, I know this is not true, and I still consider them as my sisters, but I also know that this is an oversimplification. I only have one sister, and she lives in another country. My mother still calls me “brother”, and she calls my sister “sister”.
I have four sisters. Two of them live in my country. Two of them live in a different country. One of them has a sister that lives in another country. One of them has a sister that lives in a different country. And we have a sister that lives in another country. And we have a sister that lives in another country. And we have a sister that lives in a different country. And we have a sister that lives in another country.
The problem with having four sisters is that if one dies, one is left with two. You can’t have a sister that lives in a different country and a sister that lives in a different country. You also can’t have two sisters that live in different countries and a sister that lives in a different country. So in an attempt to have a sister that lives in a different country, one of my sisters was born in a different country.
Now I know some of you are thinking, “Aww. That’s so sad!”. But why? Because your sister is born somewhere that’s close to you, they go to the same school, they go to the same church, have the same friends, and have the same hobbies. And that is, in fact, the whole point. You can have sisters that are born somewhere that’s closer to you than any other place.
As you can imagine, there are a lot of countries and countries nearby, and some of them just happen to be close to my old home. But that is why you know that I have relatives that are from that country. Because I can have sisters that are from that country and live with me. You may have not known that, but they do.