Not Growing Up With a Sister
and its discontents
I was regularly interrogated about my family when I lived in Tamil Nadu, India. My favorite questions translate to English as: "How many brothers? How many sisters?"
Notice the emphasis on the amount, not the presence, of either sibling type.
When I told them I had no sisters, most suddenly l…
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