premise: oh say that she needed that didn't she  you know it must be hard when you have a lot of children i you know to have i was an only child my mother was an only child so i  you know i wasn't raised with  brothers or sisters and i always got all the attention so i wouldn't know  i think i would be extremely jealous or would have been  had there  been another child in the family
hypothesis: His upbringing was a critical part of his success as a traveling businessman.