One example of many comes from the family in Mexico, about the 1940s: "13 hijos!? y todos vivos??" ("13 children?? and all living??" [one mother]) "Unos mas v

One example of many comes from the family in Mexico, about the 1940s: "13 hijos!? y todos vivos??" ("13 children?? and all living??" [one mother]) "Unos mas vivos que otros, pero todos comen." (A play on words, where I failed to add the right marks, but: "Some more lively [same word as living] than others, but they all eat.") And they all (but one who died in childhood) had happy families of their own, spread across North America. I'm a grandchild of that one.