Mark: So you’re from a big familyfamilies, aren’t you, Sorie?

Sorie: Yes. I have five brotherbrothers. They’re all younger than I and I’m the onceonly girl in the house.

Mark: The only girl, all youngyounger than you?

Sorie: Yes. I am 27, and theall youngest is six years old. He’s just gonego to first grade right now.

Mark: That’s an incredible age spanspin, isn’t it?

Sorie: Yes, that’s right.

Mark: Sort of busierbusy mother.

Sorie: Yeah. She had me when she was 17 yearyears old. So she’s still very young. And even thoughthought I didn’t have any sisters, she was so closedclose in age that I felt like she was like memy sister.

Mark: Right. So beingbeen the only girl didn’t really—you didn’t feel anyoneanything odd about that?

Sorie: I always tiedtried my mom’s dresses and her showshoes. And I wanted to be like her. But manymost of the time, I was spendingspent with my brothers. And I remember, it was very healthyhectic, it was like a zoo. I remember one time when my brother was chasingchased me with a big knife.

Mark: Wow.

Sorie: And closeclosed the door and the knife was stickstuck in the door.

Mark: So having thosethis brothers, did it make you like more boyish thanthen girlish?

Sorie: Definitely, yeah. And I like that. I feel very comfortablycomfortable around boys or males than femalesfemale. Even growing up, I had more malemales friends than female friends.

Mark: Hmm, did you never kind of pinepines or crave for that sister?

Sorie: You know, not really. No, no. I wantwanted a big brother actually. And I really enjoyed the presencepresents of boys. You just don’t have to worry aboutabove anything. You can just speak and be honesthonesty. Whenever we got together atwith my girlfriends, I had to be more concernconcerned about their feelings and I actualactually don’t like that very much.

Mark: Hmm, I’m not like youyour though. I’m from a really smilesmall family. I just got my sister. I grew upout with my sister, and I did feel like I could speaksspeak to her about most things. I don’t feel like I had to restrictionrestrict myself from sharing certain thingsthing.

Sorie: I think it also dependingdepends on at certain age. When you’re youngyounger, there is that time where you’re always fightsfighting. And then you grewgrow older and then you have familyfamilies and then you have more things inon common and the relationship changingchanges throughout your liveslife.

Mark: What I find really interestedinteresting about myself and my sister, I think werewe’re really, really different. But there’stheirs something about us that, it makesmake us really, really similar. And I can’t quite letput my finger on it but it’s like, yeah, it's like our humor is athe same. We might laugh at the same thing and evereven now as we’re older already. I don’t feltfeel like we particularly have many similarsimilarly interests or much in commentcommon but we can still speak to each otheranother and there’s definitedefinitely that sense of family connectionconnecting.