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Skriven 2014-04-19 22:57:22 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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->  ->  RH> She figured you had to be. 
->  -> I looked like family.  Possibly even like some long-departed family
->  -> members, as she had known them in her younger days...  :)
->  -> 
->  RH> That's possible.  I have a distinct resemblance to the grandfather 
who
->  RH> died before my parents met. The family resemblance is even stronger 
in
->  RH> my niece, oddly enough.  
->  
-> Not all that odd... it's the way genetics can work..  ;)  It's part of
-> why old pictures can be so fascinating, you see where so many features
-> came from... :)
-> 
Some family resemblances keep cropping up generation after generation.

->  -> Knowing the common ancester is enough for defining cousinhood... the
->  -> preciseness needs all the links...  ;)  When I was getting into
-> 
->  RH> It wouldn't be hard to figure out, but I generally don't care. 
-> 
-> When it comes down to relating to people, cousinship is sufficient,
-> after all...  ;)   It can be fun to figure out the specifics, but it
-> really doesn't matter (unless maybe marriage is in the works...[g]) in
-> the long run...  ;)

That's not a problem. :-)    

->  -> genealogy, family stories said that Gen George Custer was a cousin
->  -> of my 2great-grandfather, with the assumption that it was a first
->  -> cousinship... turned out to be a little more removed than that, but
->  -> it was the same generation, and they certainly knew each other and
->  -> probably that they were related...  :) 
-> 
->  RH> I'm not sure I'd want to claim that one.(LOL)  
-> 
-> It's not the only one of my infamous relatives... ;)  He's on my dad's
-> side... on my mom's side is P.T. Barnum...  :)  He's a slightly closer
-> cousin, even...  ;) 
-> 
I'm not sure I'd want him either, but at least he never got his whole 
command killed.
 
->  -> assuredness of her (declining) mind...  maybe if her mind was more 
aware
->  -> of the body she'd have had less difficulty with the concept...  ;)
-> 
->  RH> Probably true.  She'd rewound mentally but not physically.
->  
-> Exactly..  And she really was old enough to have great-grands... being
-> in her 90's already...  :)

Great grands graduating high school even. Or college.
 
->  ->  -> just little ones, for snipping and such...  :)  
->  ->  RH> Those stork scissors?  I have a pair around somewhere.
->  -> No, just little ones about the same size as primary school 
scissors...
->  -> have the distinctive Fiskars orange handles, and nice sharp
stainless
->  -> blades... :)
-> 
->  RH> My mom has some of those around somewhere.  
-> 
-> Those are made really well...  still my best set of scissors, even
-> though I've used them for everything...  :)

I always keep my eyes peeled for good ones like that.
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