Niemand anders dan ik cynthia voigt biography

Childhood

My parents had five children, three girls first and then, a few years later - long enough so that their older children could baby sit the younger - twin boys.

My father was not a poker player, but he liked to say he had a full house, three queens and two jacks.

I was the second girl. In the photograph, I am the one on the right, whose overalls are slipping off her shoulder, whose socks are crumpling down, who looks disorganized and is A Worry to her older sister, who is sitting next to her trying to get her to shape up for the photograph.

I had the kind of childhood all the middle-class children of my time enjoyed.

It was mostly about school, starting with nursery school, and lessons - piano lessons, ballet and tap lessons, a couple of horseback riding lessons, tennis lessons, ballroom dancing classes; there were typing lessons, eventually, which I did like, and no art lessons since everybody knew it was worth nobody's time or money to try to teach m