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[00:00.88] Mark: So you were talking about how you got five brothers. Do you have a different relationship with each one of them?

[00:08.88] Sorie: Yeah, definitely. They all range in age, so the oldest is 26 years old and the youngest is six years old.

[00:19.38] So I’m closer to my closest brother but they all have different personalities.

[00:27.38] And I have a great relationship with each one of them.

[00:35.63] Mark: I’m wondering if the relationship you have with the oldest one is more like brotherly-sister and the relationships you have with the really young ones is more like some kind of mother and son relationship.

[00:51.38] Sorie: Definitely. As I told you, my youngest brother is six years old.

[00:55.63] And my neighbors, they used to think that that was my child because of the difference in age.

[01:04.88] And I would be carrying him around and I would change his diapers. And when my mom was out, I was the one taking care of them or when my mom was sick, I was the one making their meals.

[01:17.13] And still have a different kind—I feel a different love for them than the love I feel for my brother.

[01:24.38] I feel like he’s more like a friend. I can talk to him; I can share my experiences with him.

[01:30.13] We’re close in age so we have a lot of similarities.

[01:34.13] And with my younger brothers, they often ask for advices and they want me to give them a little bit of my knowledge. So it’s very different with each one of them.

[01:46.13] How about you? You said you had only one sister.

[01:49.63] Mark: Yeah. I have one sister and she’s older than me. Definitely, there’s no sense of motherliness from her.

[01:59.38] I didn’t feel that at all. And we were just totally independent.

[02:07.38] I was a boy and she was a girl. She did girl things, I did boy things, and then we just lived in the same house.

[02:14.63] Sorie: What’s the age gap between the two of you?

[02:16.88] Mark: It’s like three years.

[02:17.63] Sorie: Three years, okay.

[02:18.13] Mark: Yeah.

[02:19.13] Sorie: What’s the relationship you have with her right now?

[02:25.13] Mark: The relationship I have with her right now—well, we live in different countries, so we’re so far apart.

[02:31.38] And she now has children, and I don’t have any children but we still intermittently keep in touch with each other.

[02:38.63] And it’s the same kind of feeling, the same, like; familial love obviously is very present.

[02:48.88] But it doesn’t—we don’t—I don’t know. You spoke about you’re talking to your brother about lots of things that you’ve been up to.

[02:57.13] And perhaps, I don’t talk to my sister about things, and I talk to my wife and my friends about those things.

[03:01.89] So it’s more like she’s my family rather than my friend.

[03:12.88] Sorie: I see. Did you ever wish to have any brothers?

[03:16.63] Mark: No. I just took it as it came. It wasn’t my choice, so I didn’t wish for any brothers or sisters anymore. She’s just my older sister.

[03:30.38] But I had lots of friends. Friends are very important to me, so my friends are like—my male friends, when I was younger, they’re like my brothers really.

[03:38.88] So it didn’t matter that they weren’t part of my family like an extended family.