Mother often bemoaned how my older sister was a tomboy and that I, in many ways was “more of a
Mother often bemoaned how my older sister was a tomboy and that I, in many ways was “more of a girl than her”, with a few unsettling occasions when mother losing her temper, putting me in my sisters clothes and my sister in mine. Most mortifying of all, and which greatly amused my sister, was how mother liked to tell me that I should get used to dresses, because my sister is going to be the one that grows up to be a man, where I’ll grow to be the woman. That when we are old enough, with surgery, my sister is going to have my privates, and I her’s, bearing children to my future husband! -- source link