RE: Sunday Reflection: The Unlikely Life of a “Generational Misfit"
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This sure made me smile, yup paddled a similar boat, was proud of it too.
Crazy when you go back my Dad was born 1911, Mum 13 years younger, her Mom actually 13 years older, stuck right in the middle. Only thing Dad refused was to refer to my Gran as "mom", his own mother died when he was was supporting Allies in North Africa or Italy during the war.
My Dad was 44 when I arrived, my niece only recently her second son at 43, times have changed!
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It's a different sort of experience, isn't it?
My dad was born in 1918, but his next older sister (who helped raise me) was born in 1904... the oldest of the five sibling was born in 1898, so I had a genuine auntie (not "great" auntie) born in 1898, 62 years my senior. Technically speaking, I'm an uncle to someone three years older than me!
Similar story on my Mom's side where some younger children are uncles or aunts to children much older than themselves, it is confusing.