(Accidentally posted this in last week’s MMP.)
I’m the youngest of four, with a nine-and-a-half-year gap between me and the next youngest. My brother enlisted in the Navy a few days after my second birthday, and both sisters were out of the house by my tenth birthday. Not particularly close to any of them, though we did keep in touch; my brother came to my first wedding, and one of my sisters to my second, but other than that it was mostly snail-mail.