JC> I don't know about the details of you and your siblings and the "early"
  > years. But looking back (I am the youngest of four and approaching sixty 
an
  > the oldest will be sixty-eight this year) I can see how where in many 
cases
  > even though we were brought up by the same parents and in some cases 
attend
  > the very same school system, we "reacted" to the "situations" in very
  > different ways. There are _still_ "things" in the family's past that I 
don'
  > know about that my older siblings do. My older sister went through high
  > school during WW II. I went to high school during the 1950s. VERY 
different
  > eras in American history. Different attitudes. Different values.
One of the reasons I used my younger brother as a comparison is that we
are almost the same age.  On the other hand, we were different sexes,
and therefoe would have had, in some ways, very different enviromnents.
JC> I can also see the difference in my children and my brother's children. 
y
  > brother's children (and their mother) are "Californians". My children (as
  > were both their parents) "Oregonians". Actually, my son was born in
  >California,
  > but we caught it in time and managed to "eliminate" the "bad" traits. 
I have neices and nephews all over the country.  And it *is* amazing how
much the secion of the country they're in affects their personality.
                                     Sondra
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