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When I
was 9 years old, my mother suprised us with a sister. Up to that
point, it was just Laurie and I, with 4 brothers (two more brothers
arrived after that). Sue jokes that she was born into a "sea of
boys". Sue was outnumbered from the start, not just in boys, but in
siblings. Hard to get a word in edgewise, she gave up and kept
silent a lot of the time. But Laurie & I were thrilled to have a
little sister, after taking care of those boy babies. First off,
this baby didn't wet our faces like the boys did, when we changed her
diapers. She was also fun to dress up and parade around in her
stroller. Who needed dolls, with Sue around? Sue was born with
big brown, wide-open eyes; Mom said that was because of the oxygen that
she had when Sue was born. I've been wondering through the years at
how effective that oxygen was, because Sue still has those big
eyes. When she was a little girl, she would run up to whomever
visited, and let out a loud :"HI!" My first husband Perry dubbed
her: "Weenie", while I just called her "Hun-Bun". She was my closest
sibling, overall, even after I married. Sue visited us often, and
even lived with us for a time. She seemed to me to be the most
"stable" of us all, it sometimes still amazes me. But Sue has a
nutty side, better seen in photos than anything that I could write.
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