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Her complicated relationship with her parents and being an only child adds to it, as does becoming a mother for the first time.
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Arushi Jacob, Variety, 9 May 2026
Adrian Mora, the only child born to the Estabrooks, was especially close with her father.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
Chalk it up to his upbringing as an only child in New Zealand, where his mother worked at a facility that rented film equipment for the country’s burgeoning film scene.
—Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026
As an only child in a working-class Teamster family in Anaheim, books and movies were very much my friends.
—Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
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Arushi Jacob, Variety, 9 May 2026
Adrian Mora, the only child born to the Estabrooks, was especially close with her father.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
Chalk it up to his upbringing as an only child in New Zealand, where his mother worked at a facility that rented film equipment for the country’s burgeoning film scene.
—Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026
As an only child in a working-class Teamster family in Anaheim, books and movies were very much my friends.
—Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
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“Only child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/only%20child. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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