Kate Davenport asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

I wonder how much interest Miles is taking in his half-sisters and one third (?) brothers, since they are so far away physically and so different in age. I have had several friends with siblings and half siblings far away physically and/or chronologically and they run the gamut from being very close, to being cordial acquaintances, to being essentially strangers.

Lois McMaster Bujold With 9 to choose from, I'd imagine there'd be a wide range of relationships possible. A more cousinly relationship would be likely between Cordelia and Jole's kids and Miles's. They'd likely see each other once, maybe twice a year, depending on travels; about what you'd get between cousins living in different distant states. But Miles would be functionally more uncle than brother.

(Cordelia's girls are full sisters to Miles, Jole's boys are half-brothers and some mitochondrial change. They are all aunts and uncles to Miles's kids, all younger than their nieces and nephews, doubtless the source of many family jokes.)

Ta, L.

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