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Lost in the past

7/14/2021

Con/Jur/d

Jul 14, 2021

“When my mother died in December of 1995 there were 100s of sympathy cards sent and 100s of dollars donated to the Girl Guides — It has always been a challenge to do ancestor work, too formal when you can feel them all around us”

**“Many of our interests have obvious origins”**

**“Does this still count as a selfie? I like to tell people I don’t enjoy contra/square dancing having been traumatized at an early age”**

**“I find it funny many readers won’t know to call my hairstyle a Prince Valient”**

**“The One in the middle is turning 50 in 12 days”**

**“Although, I don’t remember being as young as my parents are here — I skipped the temporal anomaly”**

**“Sorry, I tried to deny it, the witness went beyond 25 years ago, yet here’s the proof”**

**“He made such a good ancestor, better than these folks”**

Well, Y’all, caught up in an unintended deep submersion in the past. Funnily, as I was working on the ancestral shout out, this randomly came up in my BG playlist:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=i5_TK5fLCgk&feature=share

Ashe! Baba, ashe,

Con/Jur/d, 7/14/2021