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The Procrastinating Red-Head

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I was going to post this under an existing thread, but I didn't want to take away from the message of that thread, so I thought I would start a new one.


My son attends a Catholic school and my aunt used to work there.  We had always prayed when we saw an ambulance or fire truck at home, but we never talked about it with anyone else.  My aunt and I are more alike than if she were my own mother.  Anyway, my son started first grade and came home all excited because they were talking about how they do pray when they see an ambulance and he already did that.  Come to find out, my aunt was the one that started them doing that at their school.  Totally freaked me out.  I talked to her about it later and told her that we do that for fire trucks, too, so they started doing that, too.  I didn't grow up around my aunt, so it's really strange how we're so much alike.  Genetics are more important than you know. 


Has anyone else had this happen?  I grew up in Germany, Alabama and Arkansas and only saw my Dad's family on visits.  However, there are some things that I get from my aunts that I know I didn't pick up from the very few times I was around them.  I'm thinking genetics.  Am I crazy? 



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I don't know- I went to a Catholic grade school too, and we did the same thing. Maybe its just a Catholic school thing?

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I really believe geneitcs play more a part than we'll ever understand. When I was 21 my great-grandmother died. At her funeral, my grandfather (her son) shows up with this 28 year old man no one has ever met. Turns out my grandfather had an affair. The woman was also married and her husband wouldn't divorce her when she got pregnant with my grandfather's child. My mom just happened to decide to run the obiturary in the Washington Post along with our local papers, this woman just happened to see it and she told him he could meet his real father if he wanted to (he knew something was up when at puberty he shot up about 7 inches taller than his brothers).

So we all met this guy out of the blue at age 28. The similarities between him and my grandfather were striking. Both very gregarious health nuts, both in sales, both very outgoing and personable, and of course the spitting image of him.

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Your not at all crazy, Trish.  We are lucky enough in my clan to have a reunion every summer and I'm always told how much I'm like members of the family 2 & 3 x's removed.  My wife had a similar experience with a reunion.  She is the only one with her combo of face and hair in her immediate clan but her father tracked down some relatives he had never met and set up a get-together.  When we walked in and saw that line of the family, we were shocked.  It was a room full of carbon copies of my wife.

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Wow JD, I went to catholic grade school for eight full years and never heard of that before Trish brought it up!  I don't think it's just a "catholic school" thing.


Maybe you and Trish are related?!?!?!? 



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It's the same way with my husband.  The rest of his family are short, kinda stocky, and have dark hair, but he's tall, lean, and has strawberry blonde hair.  I always joke that he's the milkman's son!  (He's got the same type of voice as my father in law though, and the same nose, so there's no question there.)  But when you look at his distant relations on his mom's side, you can definately see the resemblance!


I don't know if it's genetics or just the way I grew up, but my mom and I think so alike it's scary.  We're only 17 years apart, but people usually assume I'm older than I am, and my mom looks really young.  We're often mistaken as sisters, and one time people even thought we were twins.  I had one of my mom's old acquaintances come up to me at the store once and start talking to me as if I were her, and I probably could've pulled it off.



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I've only seen my Grandfather 3 times in my whole life, but this last time we went out to breakfast together and ordered the exact same thing. We had eggs hashbrowns and bacon. The weird part was I looked over and he was mixing his eggs in with his hashbrowns just like I have done since I was a kid. We both just started laughing. We also have the same walk.

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Riggs and I have a friend who first met her biological father some years back. They went out to eat and both caught themselves arranging the utinsels in the same exact manner- it might have been just nervousnous, but the way she tells the story, she questions if that wasn't a genetic predisposition. 

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