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Article: Performing family stories, forming cultural identity: Franco American memere stories.
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- Communication Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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I was thirteen when my mother was pregnant-again-with the baby who would unsettle the symmetry of my profound place in the middle: I had three older brothers and three younger brothers, one older sister and one younger sister. Then another baby sister makes ten: the Langellier tribe, clan, family. Someone at school, in one of those dusters of kids, a boy, said, "geez Kris, don't your parents know about birth control." It got a laugh and I got red-faced, fell silent, felt the embarrassments of adolescence. More than by anything else, I have felt defined by my big family, a family size I interpreted in terms of our Roman Catholicism. But not yet in terms of my ethnicity, of ...