On 2016-08-23 8:30 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> In article >, Ophelia

>>> Don't you know anybody else who was an only child? I'm pretty
>>> typical of the breed.
>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>
>> Yes. I recognise myself.
>
> I'm starting to see a "only child" pattern here in which I fit. I just
> thought I was weird. Now I know "we" are weird. It's comforting.
>

I don't know about that. My son is an only child. Granted, he is single
in his late 30's, but he has a lot of friends, many of them very close.
He is also very close with a number of his cousins and with his uncles
and aunts.