Did you marry your long lost cousin?
- Thread starter John Galt
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your parents are identical twins who married identical twins? Or is it one of your parents are identical twins?
He never showed us a picture but she better be!
Don’t sell yourself short John, the vast majority of us hate you. 😁
That's gotta be a LOUD household when both sides get together.
The saying "it's all the same once the lights are off" comes to mind.
That was on an episode of House. Or something similar. House knew the husband was not the father of some of his kids through eye color.
My kids, wife, ex wife, and I all have hazel/green eyes. My father had blue eyes and my mother had brown eyes.
Bingo! My mom and my aunt were identical twins. They looked and acted alike their entire lives. Even in their '80s they'd get looks because they looked so identical. Both of them were college graduates too; rare for women of that generation. Bowling Green University in Ohio. My Mom is on the left.
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The genetics of eye color is actually pretty complicated. There are something like 20 different eye colors and not just brown, green, and blue.
My wife has brown eyes, I have green eyes, and our kids have blue eyes with blonde hair pale skin, green eyes with light brown hair darker skin, and brown eyes with dark dark brown hair and the kid looks like he should be in southern Italy growing grapes.
Agreed! Wolves generally have yellow-ish eyes, but when bred into dogs, many have blue eyes. I'm quite certain this did not happen just once. Maybe more convincingly, many breeds can have blue eyes, and do not have the same genetic ancestors.
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Are you really sure she is on the left, and not on the right?
My sister and her husband did the ancestry.com thing and discovered that they are 8th cousins. Funny thing is we were born in NY and he was born in CA.
Haha. They were so identical my Mom was always placed on picture left just to avoid confusion.Are you really sure she is on the left, and not on the right?
Funny story. My Dad originally asked my Aunt out for a date but she already had a boyfriend. So, she suggested he go out with her twin sister instead.
To add to my previous comment about how identical they were, they used to finish each other's sentences with an uncanny seamless transition. It was really bizarre. My Dad and Uncle would never recommend marrying twins. Twins are always the number one person in each other's lives. My Dad and Uncle were loved but they were always a distant second place to "the twins".
I have three cousins and we all share many similarities (I'm an only child). But my youngest cousin, Beth; she and I could pass for maternal twins in both looks and temperament. In fact, we are so similar there is a family "joke" amoungst us cousins that there was a twin sister swap one night and Beth and I are actually brother and sister. With the advent of genetic testing Beth and I have flirted with the idea of testing ourselves. Both sets of parents have passed so it would avoid embarrassing them, but Beth and I have decided it's not something we really want to know.
Here's the two of them at an even earlier date. I miss them!
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What did you say?.......LOL
It actually is pretty loud. My mom is 84 and a leg amputee (she can still beat most men at arm wrestling though) and we were looking for a nice place where the whole family, including my SIL's side, could have Thanksgiving. We settled on Wright's Chicken Farm in Rhode Island, which is also an old favorite of mine growing up. It was nice getting together, but man we were LOUD. LOL!!!!
My mom and dad are 7th cousins.. happens more than one might think.
4th cousins share about 0.25% DNA, a single segment. So anything 5th and beyond is pretty tiny. 7th is "barely sharing" hahahahaha
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