" Other children had brothers and sisters and sometimes they said to me it must be dull being an only child. “ What do you do? ” they asked. “ Fancy having nobody to play with! ” I was never dull; there was plenty to do and I had Mother to play with. I never thought of Mother as being “ old ” or “ young.” In fact I never really thought of her at all. She was just Mother. "

― D.E. Stevenson , Five Windows