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Does Birth Order Really Determine Personality? Here's What the Research Says One Friday afternoon at a party, I'm sitting next to a mother of two. Her baby is only a couple of weeks old. They'd taken a long time, she tells me, to come up with a name for their second child. After all, they'd already used their favorite name: it had gone to their first.
On the scale of a human life, it's small-fry, but as a metaphor I find it significant. I think of the proverbs we have around second times - second choice, second place, second fiddle, eternal second. I think of Buzz Aldrin, always in the shadow of the one who went before him, out there on the moon. I think of my sister and my son: both second children.
I was the first child in our family. I was also fearful of failure, neurotic, a perfectionist, ambitious - undoubtedly to the point of being unbearable. My sister didn't study as hard and went out more, worked at every trendy bar in town and spent many an afternoon in front of the TV.
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