My oldest sister is 19 years older than I. There were 6 of us. My parents continued a pattern of roughly 2 1/2 years between the first 2, then 5 years for the next. I'm the youngest. My sister closest in age to me is 2 1/2 years older. She's 5 years younger than the 4th. We were basically raised in pairs. Since I'm the youngest, I essentially had 5 moms, as I got older. One of my sisters made that difficult. The rest were nurturing & made my life better.