Gail Caiazzo, Saco: Finding my place in a family of eight Share As a child I identified with the “old woman who lived in a shoe.” I was not the old woman. I was one of the “so many children, she didn’t know what to do.” Gail Caiazzo, third from left, with her siblings, from left, Bobby, Patty, Marie, Carol, Johnny, Rosie and Suzanne. Photo courtesy of Gail Caiazzo ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gail Caiazzo of Saco says, “I am a blessedly retired snowbird, a mom, a grammy and a sometimes singer.” Our mom was a devout French Catholic, let’s start with that. I was No. 3 in the birth order, and the babies just kept coming. Since disposable diapers had not yet been invented, the bathroom always had at least one pail of soiled diapers soaking.