You and your cousins share a grandparent in common.

The family structures were changing dramatically toward an increasing number of grandparent and child headed households.

This perspective is not simply rooted in economics, even if today a large proportion of older Americans are rushing back to work as the downturn wrecks their retirement plans. The geographic separation of families, owing to America s size and Americans mobility, makes the association between retirement and being a grandparent less practicable in the US than it is in Europe.

I'm just saying that you know when your birthday is by virtue of the fact that somebody tells you when your birthday is, a mother, a father, a sister, a brother, an aunt, an uncle, a cousin, a grandparent. It matters to someone, and therefore it matters to you. Understand, I was 14 years old, tucked away in myself, into myself, and I wasn't touched either, physically touched.