Partridge--yikes. I have an older brother and a little sister myself. Being a middle child is a little like having all 4 wisdom teeth out, you don't sit for those 2-wisdom teeth war-stories. My wife is a first-girl who used to try to pass as a "middle-child."

MattR, just teasing you as to whether 1. building models, and 8. collecting Lord of the Rings figures maybe had any causal relation to 7. never been kissed. But seriously I envy you what you can look forward to, because you wind up always wanting to recapture it--not that you can't, but you can't all the time.

--I've been with one woman since I was 17, which is a little more than 20 years ago. I count it as obscure since not even she knows it for a fact.