Oh, I had no idea! (I wonder who it was whose stepmother made him run away from home, then. Hunh.) Okay, that's much better to have as a member of the family, then!
(Then again, both sides of my family have multiple instances of step-mothers basically running off broods of 8 or more kids, in favor of producing a new batch -- and many of those kids didn't make it, choosing to leave home as young as 12 rather than deal with the step-mom. We lost a lot of family history that way, since what 12-yr old knows jack about family history, but then never has a way to fill in the blanks, years later. Well, when we didn't just plain lose everything in house fires, which were apparently as common as mayflies.)
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Date: 22 Jan 2011 06:12 am (UTC)Oh, I had no idea! (I wonder who it was whose stepmother made him run away from home, then. Hunh.) Okay, that's much better to have as a member of the family, then!
(Then again, both sides of my family have multiple instances of step-mothers basically running off broods of 8 or more kids, in favor of producing a new batch -- and many of those kids didn't make it, choosing to leave home as young as 12 rather than deal with the step-mom. We lost a lot of family history that way, since what 12-yr old knows jack about family history, but then never has a way to fill in the blanks, years later. Well, when we didn't just plain lose everything in house fires, which were apparently as common as mayflies.)