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From: "dj" <>
Subject: [KISSINGCOUSINS-L] Fw: A Family Tree
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:52:49 -0600


thought this was cute!
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > Many many years ago when I was twenty three,
> > > >>> > I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
> > > >>> > This widow had a grown-up daughter
> > > >>> > Who had hair of red.
> > > >>> > My father fell in love with her,
> > > >>> > And soon the two were wed.
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > This made my dad my son-in-law
> > > >>> > And changed my very life.
> > > >>> > My daughter was my mother,
> > > >>> > For she was my father's wife.
> > > >>> > To complicate the matters worse,
> > > >>> > Although it brought me joy.
> > > >>> > I soon became the father
> > > >>> > Of a bouncing baby boy.
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > My little baby then became
> > > >>> > A brother-in-law to dad.
> > > >>> > And so became my uncle,
> > > >>> > Though it made me very sad.
> > > >>> > For if he was my uncle,
> > > >>> > Then that also made him brother
> > > >>> > To the widow's grown-up daughter
> > > >>> > Who, of course, was my step-mother.
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > Father's wife then had a son,
> > > >>> > Who kept them on the run.
> > > >>> > And he became my grandson,
> > > >>> > For he was my daughter's son.
> > > >>> > My wife is now my mother's mother
> > > >>> > And it makes me blue.
> > > >>> > Because, although she is my wife,
> > > >>> > She's my grandma too.
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > If my wife is my grandmother,
> > > >>> > Then I am her grandchild.
> > > >>> > And every time I think of it,
> > > >>> > It simply drives me wild.
> > > >>> > For now I have become
> > > >>> > The strangest case you ever saw.
> > > >>> > As the husband of my grandmother,
> > > >>> > I am my own grandpa!!
> > > >>
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