Posted on 09/20/2012 10:57:00 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Bob Dyer: One twisted family tree - woman finds out late husband was also her father
Amen Lady.
If your family tree does not fork you may be a redneck.
My family tree takes on the appearance of a manzanita bush for several generations back in the 1800s. There were only a few families within horse cart distance, and they all married each other.
From the article:
Why would anyone volunteer this kind of information?Because Valerie Spruill wants to be an example. The 60-year-old Doylestown woman wants to show other folks born into miserable situations that they can still lead good, productive, fulfilling lives.
How are you, old friend?
It would have been caught and papa would have ended up in jail...
I am well, and yourself?
Maybe, I will tell everyone about my life, ;-)
My youngest in high school had an assignment where they were supposed to write an essay about one of their parents lives, love my husband and family, they are boring.
She wrote about my, life and the teacher accused her of making it up. hahahah.
Anyway, we all have lessons to teach others, I suppose she is correct, her story is just very odd and sad.
It might make a good movie script.
FR has been active these days, lots and lots of emotions running hot and on occasion irrational (not me of course).
Welcome back, Scout.
I know of a similar but not nearly as bad story. Everyone either knew or had strong suspicions and nobody said a word until after the funeral. Up until the 70s most people believed in not interfering with other people’s families for good or for ill. Wives and kids got beaten or killed and there was plenty of molestation but nobody said anything. In a lot of ways the good ole days were not so good.
“They refuse to listen to reason.”
Our Chief Resident made the crack at the time of the father/grandfather incident that everyone in her neck of the woods had someone in a wheelchair. This was an area that originally had a lot of intermarriage. This group has been intensively studied by geneticists over the last 30 years and things have changed.
‘I went to my family reunion last weekend down in Arkansas and met my cousin, my aunt, and a long lost half-sister I never knew I had.
And she was a real nice lady too...’
How is it that her *uncle* knew but her *father* did not?
“For years, she overheard odd whispers she couldn’t figure out. She finally learned the truth from an uncle not long after her husband/father’s death.”
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