Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for February 16, 2023

My cousin Virginia is the oldest of ten siblings; youngest Larry is close to my age.

It’s terrible having to raise your siblings. I had to do that and I was only 12 years old.

That is probably why I never had children. I knew what the problems were.

Lots of “changes”, and stinky ones at that.

I’ll bet she owned a lot of shoes, too.

ba dum tss

It wasn’t so much a matter of Hand-Me-Downs, but a First-Come thing.

My grandmother (at the turn of the last century) was the oldest of 8 siblings. Her father refused to let her go to high school because he wanted her to stay home and take care of her sibs. She moved out of state and got a factory job instead.

Lots of diapers if nothing else.