A tribute to my dying sister, with help from St. Thérèse

One of the biggest misconceptions about large families is that they are, by default, cohesive units. When the age range between the oldest and the youngest siblings is 18 years, the family geography turns into mountainous terrain.

In our big family, things were divided into the “First” and “Second” waves.

The “First” represents the five children born during the war years. And when I say “war,” I mean the “big” one, the conflagration between 1939 and 1945 that engulfed the world, molded our country, and shaped generations and families to come for decades.

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(Photo Courtesy: Brennan family)