Alex Warren

And I started to think about... Because at that point, it was like, oh, at nine years old, losing your dad, and then you're 14, it's all you know.

The formative years of your life are now starting.

And so you're just...

being like oh i don't have a dad that's a normal thing and i started to think about what was what i was missing what i didn't have and i think that was the biggest thing my mom was a alcoholic who wasn't present so i realized i was raising myself and having to you know all of us all of me and my siblings were raising each other and that was something for us that we really um

we didn't realize wasn't normal for a very long time.

And we struggle with today.

I think we struggle with having a normal sibling relationship because we were so busy trying to parent each other.

It's interesting.

I think it was more of like, you know, me and my brother were obviously this protective brother over our little sister.

And then I think my older sister felt that Nisha was about four years older than us.

So she felt really the need to do so.

Yeah, I think the dynamic is just different.

You don't have an older brother.

You have someone that you, for me at least, is someone I help through with daily life and vice versa.

And there's different things that I'm skilled at that he is.

And I think we adapted really, really well to being able to...

To being able to parent each other, but then that normal relationship of just catching up and sibling.

It's weird now doing it as we had a moment when my mom died, we kind of all went our separate ways.

We kind of just realized what the is wrong with our lives and we all stopped talking.

oh wow we all stopped talking we all went apart and i started doing this and um we rekindled not too long ago most of us live in the same state now and we grab lunch every week and we try our best to kind of you know hash that out it's been nice honestly i'm really close with all of them now which is really cool who was the first person to reach out uh probably lauren my older sister she reached out to you