A couple of months ago I did one of those DNA tests to see about my ethnic heritage. My mom's family is your normal southern hillbilly clan, you know, you can trace them back forever but hardly get out of Tennessee. My dad was adopted and although as a young man he somehow identified and tracked down his birth mother there was always considerable mystery regarding his background.
Well, disappointingly it turns out I am 100% white guy. No vaguely shameful surprises generations back, no trace of any ethnicity that plays music in an interesting time signature, mostly German, a sprinkling of one of each from the British Isles. White, white, white.
Maybe that's why Buford's always liked me so much.
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