
I’m the fourteenth of twenty-two children. All biological. Fourteen boys, eight girls. When I say that out loud, I can feel people doing the math in their heads—trying to picture it, trying to understand how something like that even functions. Most people don’t grow up in a family; they grow up in a household. I grew up in something closer to a small, loud, moving ecosystem.
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