Restored now to her parents, she grew up as a happy and gifted child.

Like so many others, my mother grew up as a child during the Depression years.

Garrett also started from the beginning, talking about growing up in Wilmington as an only child.

We never had one when I was growing up here as a child.

"I grew up as a child of Life," he said.

He had two older siblings but grew up "virtually as an only child".

Betts grew up as an only child with a single mother who worked two and three jobs to make ends meet.

It is where Cara grew up as a military child.

I grew up as an only child, with a single mother.

I grew up as a child in this part of the world.