Quote from: Oldandcreaky on Today at 01:15:16 PMWhoa, Twain's belated neighbor and Lincoln's cuz. You're royalty by dint of proximity and DNA.
I think telling our son about my situation was less fraught than telling him, when he was like 6-7, that he was related to Abe Lincoln. Because he then spent the rest of that school year singing the original song he wrote entitled "I'm related to Abraham Lincoln" over and over and OVER again... 😂
BTW, the lyrics were, coincidentally, exactly the same as the title. So... not a lot of variety in that song. So he could get through like 40-50 renditions of it in under 3 minutes.
Last month when cleaning out stuff in the basement we came across some school project he did where he did the family tree showing his connection to Abe - which is great, but I think it was for science class and he was supposed to make one of those baking soda volcanos. (I kid, I kid)...
As for Twain, yes.. it is kind of cool. Drove by his house every day for most of my life. I can't recall the last time I actually went inside, though... must have been 40 years ago? I have vague memory of taking my wife when we were first dating.
All that is apropos of nothing, though, other than that the phrase "by dint of proximity" is doing a LOT of the heavy lifting in your note above, as it relates to "royalty". I mean, A LOT. 😉