I grew up as an only child. I don't know why my parents didn't give me siblings!
Was it hard to be an only child?  I have a brother and a sister, so I don't know what it is like.
It was hard. There wasn't anyone to play with, but I guess there wasn't anyone to fight with either! Being an only child is actually relatively uncommon!
Do you think it will become more common though now that it is more expensive to raise a kid?
20th century, birth rates and average family sizes fell sharply, for a number of reasons including increasing costs of raising children and more women having their first child later in life. The proportion of families in the U.S. with only children increased during the Great Depression but fell during the Post–World War II baby boom. After the Korean War ended in 1953, the South Korean government suggested citizens each have one or two children to boost economic prosperity, which resulted in significantly lowered birth rates and a larger number of only children
be there playing the piano and I'd go up there to practise and we started practising together. At that point I didn't even know how great he was. So I wasn't intimidated and I was able to just sit and practise with him for hours. If that had happened years later, I would have tried to second-guess what he wanted.
Then Gil started getting ready to do an album and asked me to join the band. Not only was it my first record date, it was Gil