missing siblings

An Eastern perspective

Thanks for giving me this wonderful opportunity to share my thoughts and feelings. After 34 years of being a single child to my aged parents, I would definitely say a big “NO NO” to being born and raised as the only child. I am going to support this with real life examples… My parents were not young when I was born, moreover it was a luv marriage. In a strictly caste conscious society, they didn’t have any of their relatives visiting us. This means no cousins to act as my siblings. Maybe, my ill-luck. Still, in the later part of my life, when I started to get in touch with my cousins, there was a clear line between cousins and siblings. When there was a need to search for alliance for marriage, nobody would take any steps. Whereas, when it came to searching for their own brothers and sisters, they spent [...]

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