Hi cyanaura: (wish I knew how to pronounce your name! Are you male or female? I'm guessing female but what do I know, lol, oh geez I am overwhelmed.)

Look you, you have sparked what promises to be a mostly unbelievable chain of events in my reality.

I kid you not.

No, not your argument(s)(though I will respond later after I come to grips with what follows:).

WOWSER

About three years back cyanaura, I came into some family information, a single detail actually, which sibling #4 apprised me of, which we batted about but briefly before other more pressing familial current events engulfed us. And the full import went under-considered in the consternation of that lengthy anguish. In essence, the detail was forgotten .

Anyway, you got me to thinkin, then to making a list, which discovered the misplaced detail, whereupon in consideration of the composition, the perverbial light went on.

The detail: a birth certificate memo.

The sibling, we think of as #3, her birth certificate notes her as our mother's fifth live birth. As brother #2 was born roughly a year before sister #3, he must necessarily be live birth #4.

That lead to my locating my birth certificate whereupon I discovered I am my mothers first live birth.

So now I'm wondering the usual questions about real siblings #'s 2 & 3, and what actually transpired in the nearly 6 1/2 year timeline between my former #2 step-brothers birth and my own? Mom's dead, so that's no good. And I'm an only child, so my Dad didn't know any facts.

Suffice it to say there are firm elements of that 6 1/2 years that make fer other deductions I needn't go into til I get this sorted out.

weird how stuff comes about huh ...

BTW, Already -in closely examining that old indistinct copy of my birth certificate- I learned a completely new fact. That being that, although I was the first live birth, a fetal death preceded me. And it's news to me as of about 2 hours ago.

Thanks I guess, ya thanks! fer yer part in this! (:

Is that crazy or what?!

respects All