i'm so sorry this took a minute to get back to you! there's some triggering stuff here about abuse, so if that isn't your cup of tea that's okay but i just wanted to warn you. they grew up in queens in a smallish apartment for four kids and their parents. they're all very close because they had to deal with their lazy, alcoholic father at a young age. he was just verbally and emotionally abusive, not physically. he finally left when this one was 10, leaving them with just their mother to take care of them. i have it that the kids were successful academically as a way of handling it, getting themselves wrapped up in schoolwork to avoid what was happening but that's easily erasable if you don't want to go that route. there isn't much else that's been definitely set in stone so whatever you'd want to bring to the table is perfectly okay with me!