What Made You Who You Are?

Edith, my grandmother, in 1895 aged 3 (family photo)

Pondering the mysteries of personality

My sister-in-law and I had a fascinating conversation over lunch today. Of course it was fascinating because we were talking about ourselves. It was also about how we became those people.

We sisters-in-law have a lot in common — within five years in age, married to two brothers, grew up in the same province, with old-school fathers from UK stock…