John and I each have an unfinished pregnancy in our sibling-trees -- mine would've been a brother born to my dad and stepmom right after they got married (and therefore older than the sister who is now at Annapolis being a plebe); it was not the right time for a child, for them, so they chose not to have a child. John's was a sister, between him and his living youngest; I think she made it to 18-20weeks and was spontaneously lost.
We call them Secundus and Tertia (from what their birthorder would have been in the family) when we speak about them amongst ourselves (though neither of us has told our respective parents we do this, because it might be squicky). I think of them as our alternate-world siblings. Sometimes I rabbithole a little about what the family might have turned out like ... for one thing, my dad's continuing obsession about A SON!!!! (my father is the firstborn-male of a firstborn-male of a firstborn-male. Umyeah.) would either have abated or made poor Sec's life hell on earth. :->
Whatever might've been down the other trouser-leg of Time, though, these are the families we have here and now.
(edited to rephrase more accurately and gently some things in the first paragraph)
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Date: 2009-02-01 03:11 pm (UTC)We call them Secundus and Tertia (from what their birthorder would have been in the family) when we speak about them amongst ourselves (though neither of us has told our respective parents we do this, because it might be squicky). I think of them as our alternate-world siblings. Sometimes I rabbithole a little about what the family might have turned out like ... for one thing, my dad's continuing obsession about A SON!!!! (my father is the firstborn-male of a firstborn-male of a firstborn-male. Umyeah.) would either have abated or made poor Sec's life hell on earth. :->
Whatever might've been down the other trouser-leg of Time, though, these are the families we have here and now.
(edited to rephrase more accurately and gently some things in the first paragraph)