sentences:  ...When their first son was born, my mother was only 18 years old, and she became gravely ill. She was in bed for six months, unable to move.When she recovered, the doctors told her that she would not be able to have more children, and that if she did, her life would be in grave danger.She later gave birth to 21 more children – I am the last – and she lived to the age of 82."