Yet the silver lining to my childhood is that my siblings and I had to learn how to hustle.
"I love all my siblings one at a time, but I just can't take them all at once, " he says.
They instilled in my siblings and me the motive for giving back.
In any case, I was allowed to visit a coffee shop a couple of blocks away while my siblings were still trying on clothes.
"Now I kid around with my siblings that it's through osmosis that I got to be an astronaut, " Hernandez, 47, told reporters in a recent briefing.
My mother was always available and willing to help others in need and would take me and my siblings to visit the sick every week and share our food with others.
Yes, I can remember my parents having fancy dinner parties where my siblings and I were allowed to stay up just long enough to say hello, then shuffled off to our rooms.
My three younger siblings and my father, a retired police officer who worked for 35 years and has two knee replacements an impending hip replacement and the inability to take care of his kids by himself to show for it.
My mom and dad love me and my four siblings immensely, but they were no pushovers.
And unlike my younger siblings, '80s and '90s babies, I do remember the days when radio played fun rap.
As a child she was both a stay-at-home-mom (until my three siblings and I were all in school) and a working mom (an over-committed special education teacher).
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My parents taught my four siblings and me to work hard, to give back to our community, and to make sure that the ladder of opportunity was there for those coming after us.
Growing up I lived with my mother, my father, two older siblings and my grandparents, and I can truly say that I had the best experiences in life.
When I was a youngster, my parents, siblings and I would attend Aunt Mary and Uncle Don's Christmas Eve party.
My much older siblings would return home from college, usually with interesting new friends from far-off places who could be relied on to entertain and dazzle me.
My father was one of 7 siblings and was brought up with his father on a war pension.
Now that I look at this picture, I am reminded that even that 12-string Taylor 855 is owed all to you: when your Uncle Walter died, your siblings got some of the cash but my sister and I split your share.
But more than just an appropriate level of fisticuffs, the difficulty level remains constant throughout, rather than ramping up as you go, and meant that he could keep up with his older siblings without the usual headaches of needing my help every five seconds.
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Ken Miller left the state several times--"trying to get away from my own sexuality"--but eventually returned to his four siblings and 12 aunts and uncles.
He loved Hawaii, swimming in the ocean, playing basketball - sounds like my kind of guy. (Laughter.) His siblings remember him as the big brother -- quiet but strong -- who took care of them, stood up for them in the neighborhood, and who would treat them to ice cream.
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At a recent health fair my club hosted at a local school, my children helped entertain other kids while their parents received diabetes screenings and their siblings underwent eye exams.
The gas siblings pay a substantial fuel economy penalty, but the rush is worth it, in my opinion.
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