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What a great argument for opening adoption records--at least in part.

Of course, having the exact same birthday, birth town, and facial features would seem to be a pretty decent indication that you really ought to ask some questions.  Or is even that information opaque to many who are adopted?

How incredibly awful for that couple, um.. uncouple, ... siblings! This has got to be devastating in a vast many ways for them. The parents will no doubt pay dearly for their detrimental decision of not telling the truth.
Bike Bubba.. fraternal twins can be as different as night and day. It isn’t an oddity to share the same birthplace with hundreds of others in your city and I’m betting one of the adoptive parents changed the birth date to the day of the adoption.
All this aside ... the parents have done some heartbreaking disservice to their children.
(of course if this couple are older than, lets say 60 then it’s a different story)

Anna, I’d have to agree that something might have been tweaked....again, what an argument for greater openness in adoption records.

Whoop, I posted this same story on the front page. Twice I’ve doen that this week.

I’ve got to start reading my own blog more!

As someone who grew up in a small community where the dating ritual often included some oblique up-front questions about ancestry, I’m sympathetic to these two.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Reminds me of the story I saw on the local news 20 years ago.

These two ladies got stuck in the same hospital in town here.  Both were quite old and nearly blind.

They got to talking and found out that they were sisters who hadn’t seen eachother for something like 50 years ago when one got married and moved away.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

As someone who grew up in a small community where the dating ritual often included some oblique up-front questions about ancestry, I’m sympathetic to these two.

Don’t the Ports look forward to family reunions to meet girls?

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Don’t the Ports look forward to family reunions to meet girls?

Well, yeah. Usually girls from all over the country to try to land a Port guy.  We’re all very good looking.

It’s a blessing and a curse.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I’ve never figured out why women are attracted to inmates on death row either.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Sounds like the Redlin family.

Inbreeding was our curse.  Marrying outside the family was verboten.

You think I’m kidding.  I’m not.  Someday I’ll tell you about what it was like on the prairie when the Redlins homesteaded in Dakota.  Family getogethers was to find a mate.  I don’t think we were unusual in the 1800’s.  I met my fathers cousin (a Bowdle from Lisbon) who he was supposed to marry by arrangement between the two dads.  This was German Lutheran.  He was nearly disowned when he married a Norwegian Non Religious woman, my mom. How far have we really come? 

If incest were accepted I’ll bet a lot of people would marry cousins and sisters.  Who else carries the same values and expectations you do?  Who else understands what you grew up with.  It would be easy to do.  This story doesn’t surprise me one bit.  In fact it’s funny it doesn’t happen more often.

[b]Old Tigers are more dangerous when they believe this could be their last hunt.

From , “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
Old tigers, sensing the end,
they’re at their most fierce. 
And they go down fighting.