Rebecca says being an only child left her unaccustomed to constantly thinking about siblings or other dependents, which made her homestay experience in Botswana newly instructive.
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Only child
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Rebecca defines the lack she discovered not as missing siblings per se but as missing the habit of constantly thinking about and staying aware of other people.
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"Um, we are all, us, I think most of us are this single child in, in our homes. Um, as a, I'm not accustomed..."
"I just, I think it's lacking, um, just the, I think it's lacking the thing that, um, I'm, um, just when some, when you..."
"...up in a, in a, in a family where you're the only child. And so you could just think about yourself all the time..."
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