My mother's family had ten children. Of those ten, eight were female. The first baby born was male and died
at one month of age. Then, six unwanted females arrived: Aunt Natta #1, who died at four years of age, Aunt
Natta #2, Rosina, Mica, who died at age eleven, Peppina and Maria, my mother. Finally after all those girls,
Uncle Joe, the only male to survive, was born. Then two more undesired girls, Aunt Toma and Aunt Mimi,
followed.