- my mom is one out of 13
- my dad is the oldest of 5
- but I'm an only child
- I don't have any cousins in the U.S.
- I'm the only grandchild from both sides of the family to be in the USA-
- my parents immigrated to the USA in the late 1980s
- my lola/grandma (who has 13, technically 15, kids) is 88 years old
- my maternal grandparents lived through world war II
- almost all the names on both sides of my parents and their siblings start with an "a"
- on my dad's side, for all my female cousins and I, there's a name pattern with names ending in "li" and "ann/anne"
- my dad's side are generally tall and skinny, while my mom's side are smaller and rounder
- even though "tita" means aunt in tagalog, one of my grandaunts made me call her "tita" since I was born
- my cousins in the philippines really need to learn how to use condoms
- my parents are total opposites
- we (mom, dad, lola, and I) live in a one-story house unless I'm in SJ
- one of my grand-aunts teaches at yale
- many people in my family are nurses
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