A Quote by Lily King

I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.

Lily King

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Ages Another Anthropology Between Children College Cultures Different Different Cultures Divorced Early Education Eighteen Eleven Family Father Feel Five Five Years Four Going Got Had Her Immediately Major Man Married Meantime Mother Our Children Parents Parents Divorce Seven Three Very Woman Years

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Lily King
American - Novelist
Born: 1963

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I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married.

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