Dennis/Laurie Brown

I had to seriously LOL over this one!  I, too, have 7 parents...9 if we include my foster family!
 
We ought to compare notes sometime.  I've threatened to write a soap opera based on my real life history...but even for a soap opera no one would believe it!
 
You made my day!
Eiraul
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Sent: February 17, 2001 6:34 PM
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I have been accused of having a life like a soap opera. How
many other people have 7 parents?

Valerie

Valerie Stewart

**Whoa, you upped me by two?!  
 
My own story wouldn't make for a good soap, only because all my parents are pretty nice people. No soap opera fodder there. 
 
You just made my day, too. :)
 
Valerie up north of Eiraul 
 
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 I had to seriously LOL over this one!  I, too, have 7 parents...9 if we include my foster family!
 
We ought to compare notes sometime.  I've threatened to write a soap opera based on my real life history...but even for a soap opera no one would believe it!
 
You made my day!
Eiraul

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In a message dated 02/18/2001 12:16:20 AM Pacific Standard Time,
Brownville77@... writes:

<< I have been accused of having a life like a soap opera. How
many other people have 7 parents?
>>
he he he he how about my brother in law is my biological father, making my
step sister my step mother, my nieces my half sisters and my step dad my
grandfather!
LOL!
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> he he he he how about my brother in law is my biological father, making my
> step sister my step mother, my nieces my half sisters and my step dad my
> grandfather!
> LOL!
> Teri
>
Oh my Teri! This means your bio dad married married the daughter of your
step dad?

How do family reunions go??

LisaKK

Sue

>
> << I have been accused of having a life like a soap opera. How
> many other people have 7 parents?

A young friend of mine jokes about how she only has three grandparents,
seems she just had one grandfather and when one her Grandmothers was on her
death bed she confided to her son that his Daddy wasn't his Daddy, but his
wife's Daddy was......

Sue

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In a message dated 02/18/2001 8:53:10 AM Pacific Standard Time,
LisaBugg@... writes:

<< How do family reunions go?? >>

You got it!!I had to draw a map for my dh! LOL And family reunion don't go
well... it is one thing to have a skeleton in your families closet.... quite
another to BE the family skeleton!!! ;-)

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In a message dated 2/18/01 10:23:32 AM, sue.m.e@... writes:

<< on her
death bed she confided to her son that his Daddy wasn't his Daddy, but his
wife's Daddy was...... >>

I always wonder about the inherent narcisissism in marrying someone who's so
much like yourself. <bwg>

The taboo against marrying siblings and first cousins is justified with all
kinds of scare stories, but when tracked down few of them besides hemophilia
seem very scary at all. It's just the fancy shroud the taboo is in.

Last I heard in anthropology class, the only universal taboo is for a son not
to have sex with his mother. All other combos were allowed for in some
culture(s) or other somewhere.

Sandra

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SandraDodd@... wrote:

 
In a message dated 2/18/01 10:23:32 AM, sue.m.e@... writes:

<<  on her
death bed she confided to her son that his Daddy wasn't his Daddy, but his
wife's Daddy was...... >>

I always wonder about the inherent narcisissism in marrying someone who's so
much like yourself. <bwg>

The taboo against marrying siblings and first cousins is justified with all
kinds of scare stories, but when tracked down few of them besides hemophilia
seem very scary at all.  It's just the fancy shroud the taboo is in.

Last I heard in anthropology class, the only universal taboo is for a son not
to have sex with his mother.  All other combos were allowed for in some
culture(s) or other somewhere.

Sandra
 

Just watched a documentry on an area in India where it is the mothers job to initiate her son into sex. She teaches him how to please women. So there you go....

Shyrley

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In a message dated 2/18/01 12:13:25 PM, pagan@... writes:

<< Just watched a documentry on an area in India where it is the mothers
job to initiate her son into sex. She teaches him how to please women.
So there you go....
>>

The last taboo, gone...
The Global Village Soap Opera!

Valerie Stewart

he he he he how about my brother in law is my biological father, making my
step sister my step mother, my nieces my half sisters and my step dad my
grandfather!
LOL!
Teri

**Thankfully, none of my extended family have become my family again under
other titles. I was always afraid this would happen and my children would
never get it straight. As it is, they can barely remember who is who. They
just assume they're related to everyone somehow.

Valerie

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We don't have any interesting combinations of relations (at least not
confessed to!), but both dh and I come from large families with large
families, so my eldest quizzes all newcomers to her social scene with,'are
you a cousin or a friend?'.

Caroline

Lynda

I am in sort of the same boat and have already got the draft done on a book and am getting it ready for the final product.  The title (already previewed and approved, although long by a couple of interested publishers) is "The Name's Have Been Changed to Protect the Guilty."
 
It includes fun stuff like a grandmother that was left on a park bench during the 1906 earthquake, a grandmother who was a mail order bride, a sister & sil who were married as many times as Liz Taylor, and a father who has had many mystery wives (we still aren't sure how many) but we do know that the first wife's name was Lynn and some part of the name seems to appear in the names of all his daughters (none of whom are Lynn's daughters).
 
Lynda
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Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 12:09 AM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Soap opera life

I had to seriously LOL over this one!  I, too, have 7 parents...9 if we include my foster family!
 
We ought to compare notes sometime.  I've threatened to write a soap opera based on my real life history...but even for a soap opera no one would believe it!
 
You made my day!
Eiraul
----- Original Message -----
Sent: February 17, 2001 6:34 PM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Re: ER - or sex is good

I have been accused of having a life like a soap opera. How
many other people have 7 parents?

Valerie


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Dennis/Laurie Brown

Good for you!  Let us know when it's ready for publication.
 
(Part of my mixed up soup of a family includes my mother marrying the father of my DH a mere 2 weeks before our wedding.  THAT was a fun one to explain to the kiddos!  She has since divorced and remarried 2 additional times.  The most fun I had with it was to show up at my sister's wedding reception and let my mother explain it to her new in-law.  Me...I simply smiled sweetly and let her squirm.  I'm not the one who had an affair with the father of my daughter's boyfriend and abandoned her children...)
 
(I's a wicked, wicked girl! <EG>)
Eiraul
----- Original Message -----
From: Lynda
Sent: February 18, 2001 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Soap opera life

I am in sort of the same boat and have already got the draft done on a book and am getting it ready for the final product.  The title (already previewed and approved, although long by a couple of interested publishers) is "The Name's Have Been Changed to Protect the Guilty."
 
It includes fun stuff like a grandmother that was left on a park bench during the 1906 earthquake, a grandmother who was a mail order bride, a sister & sil who were married as many times as Liz Taylor, and a father who has had many mystery wives (we still aren't sure how many) but we do know that the first wife's name was Lynn and some part of the name seems to appear in the names of all his daughters (none of whom are Lynn's daughters).
 
Lynda

Tracy Oldfield

Well, I don't have this interesting heritage, I only have a father who
likes to drive round red-light areas, 'window-shopping,' and who,
when my mum found out who he was cheating with (this particular
time) she dosed his undies with itching powder and phoned the
woman and told her he was only seeing her cos Mum wouldn't
sleep with him while he had crabs. oh, and Daddy-dearest wanted
to bring two women home to live with us all that he'd met and fallen
for in Nepal while he worked there... Now, db is on so many drugs
for psychosis we don't know where he starts and the drugs end, his
son is in care because his fruit-loop ex-wife, well, basically she's
fruit-loop... ds has an extremely controlling (up to and beyond,
IMO the point of emotional abuse) husband... and me? well, I was
engaged at 15, then raped by the guy I'd been engaged to (and
pregnant by) when I dumped him... I think all things considered,
I'm not doing too badly...

Tracy
PS did I mention my step-father, the para who was a Jap POW
and had the knife to his neck when the camp was liberated, drank
to excess (I mean excess) and we have no idea how he's still alive
at 76yo...

> I am in sort of the same boat and have already got the draft done on a
> book and am getting it ready for the final product. The title
> (already previewed and approved, although long by a couple of
> interested publishers) is "The Name's Have Been Changed to Protect the
> Guilty."
>
> It includes fun stuff like a grandmother that was left on a park bench
> during the 1906 earthquake, a grandmother who was a mail order bride,
> a sister & sil who were married as many times as Liz Taylor, and a
> father who has had many mystery wives (we still aren't sure how many)
> but we do know that the first wife's name was Lynn and some part of
> the name seems to appear in the names of all his daughters (none of
> whom are Lynn's daughters).
>
> Lynda