Matteo nodded. "My Uncle Torey is the oldest of nineteen, and he takes everything on himself. Anything one of them needs, Uncle Torey's on it. And he does it for all of us, too. Way too serious, a lot of the time, probably because of it. Izzie can be, too, but that probably has something to do with when our mom--biological mom, that is--died." And Victoria, but no need to talk about dead baby sisters.

Matteo never had liked dead baby jokes, for exactly that reason.