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Originally Posted by Arky
Memoirs? I got your memoirs.  |
Awesome. I would have never subjected these boards to those haiku contests back in the day if we had all these memoirs to read in the summer.
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Originally Posted by chuck
And Keith and I have actually met. But that was back when his son was just a little boy. He's probably about 25 now, paying for Buford's so-securtee.
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Ha, he just finished freshman year of high school, now 2" taller than me and still growing. He is a LHP getting his fastball into the low 80s, so he plays a lot of travel ball when the HS season is out, which is why I am tardy catching up here.
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Originally Posted by chuck
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.
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I did 23 and me. Then I sent my results and five bucks to Promethease for more info on my genetics. Pretty cool stuff. Done the ancestry.com thing; enjoyed that, too.
On a related note, growing up (around Texas, generally) I had often heard from classmates that they had some small amount (1/16th, etc) of Native American in their family. Like, wayyy too many people said that. Always had me curious. Anyhoo, these DNA tests can certainly provide some interesting results, because these folks who think they are part-Cherokee or whatever are FAR more likely to have African blood in them, especially if any part of their family has been in the southeastern U.S. for 200+ years.