at least you didn’t have an only child.” “Not that I planned it. It just turned out that way.” “What does it feel like? I wonder. To have two daughters.” “Frankly, a little strange. More than half the children in my older girl’s nursery school are only children. The world’s changed since we were kids. In the city, only children have become more the rule, not the exception.” “You and I were born too soon.”