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Family ties

Sometimes family ties can become very complicated. Now just look at what happened ol' Jack. Five years ago, when he was 55, he married a 45 year old widow named Tina who had a daughter Sally aged 20 and a son Peter aged 18. Thus Jack became...

by Catfoot
Jul 2016
in Opinionated
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39 comments

Sunday Morning Coming Down

Can a first cousin, once removed, be attached again? If so, I want to exhume his body. Just to tell him about the scandalous way in which his daughter and her married-on family left my house after I had to reprimand them (the twin brothers) for settl...

by Catfoot
Jun 2015
in Family
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31 comments

The Famdamily again

A cousin, twice removed (my grandfather was her great-great-grandfather), who now lives a thousand miles from here, called me the other day. She asked if they (her husband and three children) could spend a few days with me when they visit Cape Town d...

by Catfoot
Jun 2015
in Family
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34 comments

My cousin died. :(

Yeah, my cousin Bob died on Wednesday. His sister Susan e-mailed me on Thursday to let me know. His wife (my cousin-in-law) Ann found him on the kitchen floor, when she came home from work. He had a stroke back in 2009. That SHOULD...