Morfar
I am the only child of the only daughter of my grandparents. I was also the first born grandchild, the oldest of what turned out to be 16 grandchildren, and the only one, of all those grandchildren, who gets to call our grandfather, Morfar. Morfar means mother's father, and since all of my cousins are the children of my mother's brothers, my position is sort of unique. I'm not special. I just have a lot of memories of how things were before our family was as huge and wonderful as it is now, lots of pictures in my head that i don't have snapshots of. When i was three, i was the older of only two grandchildren. I don't remember how it came about, but i do remember giving my Morfar a list (probably didn't write it down) of 3 items that i really wanted. A whistle. Sunglasses. And a tiny black teddy bear. So Morfar took me shopping. We went from store to store to store, searching and searching and searching for the treasures i could see in my head.