Of course, I received instructions about what it meant to be responsible for my siblings while my parents were out of the house. I needed to know what the emergency numbers were, and so on.
Probably because I was sometimes left in charge of my siblings, I received a variety of other lectures about being responsible for others.
My father comes from a part of the country where people sometimes freeze to death in broken-down cars or trucks. So I was told that if I drive others, I am…
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