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Permalink Reply by Bit Devine on October 3, 2013 at 4:46pm

For decades, I have heard..."leave it be, there are things you wouldn't want to hear, girlie" whenever I asked questions about our lineage. Of course, that was seen as a challenge and so of I went on my quest.

In that Quest, I have found that in my Gran's generation, nearly everyone of her siblings, including herself, had their first child either prior to marriage or just after. Perhaps, that was a shock in those times, but not so much now.

I have also learned of phsyical and sexual abuse allegations...children claimed by one man who might actually have been the offspring of another of his brothers...

So life was a hard tell soap opera even back when...or perhaps more so because of the times

What I oft explain is that it is those "fleshing stories"...those details that humanize a name/date/dash/date into somebody you can relate to and makes family out of facts

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