"Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or leg, or drowned him in the tub."

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The idea of legitimacy is something I suppose I deal with in my fiction, and in part it's probably a response to my upbringing. When I was growing up I was the middle child, pathologically shy, in a family with a very loud and opinionated older brother, and I felt as if I never had the right to speak. As a result, I simply didn't speak very much.

— Lauren Groff