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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Third Cousin Eight Times Removed?
I lied. I’m back. Know why? I was thinking about family.
Johnathan and I have talked about our families before. I can’t get his family straight yet, which is probably just fine, considering I certainly can’t expect him to be able to keep mine straight now, if ever. We have discussed children before, and I get to thinking, every now and then, about how many relatives those children will have. You see, where Johnathan has no siblings, much fewer aunts and uncles and only one grandparent, even with his step-mother involved, I have… more than that. I have eight – eight – living grandparents, four parents who are all still quite young, all of whom have many siblings. My mom has at least four – there are step-siblings involved; I’ve never been able to quite figure it out – my dad has five living, my step-mother has six, and I believe my step-dad has three, though I’ve never met any of them. Most of them are married and have children. I have more cousins than I’ve ever met, one brother and two half-sisters. My poor, poor future children. I feel bad for them already, and I’m not even ready to have them!
What was the point of this? No point, really. I’m just marveling at the wonders of second families and how convoluted families can get when you take four large families and squash them together.
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