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What is the birth order position of your blonde niece?

[MD Expat in PA]

Then your mother either never studied Gregor Mendel's theories in high school, or forgot what she had supposedly learned.

My mother probably never studied such theories in HS back in the late 1930’s. I think she was most going on the old wives’ tales and assumptions at the time that a dark haired and brown eyed woman was not going to have a blonde haired and blue eyed child.

What is the birth order position of your blonde niece?

She was their second child. She was born 5 years after her older sister and less than two years before her younger brother.