How closely do you resemble your parents?

In any way I resemble my dad, I'm lucky. My mom, not so much. I looked in the mirror today and a faded stranger looked back, so it's not long before my son starts worrying about resembling his parents.

“On summer nights the world
moves within earshot
on the interstate with its swish
and growl, an occasional siren
that sends chills through us.
Sometimes, on clear, still nights,
voices float into our bedroom,
lunar and fragmented,
as if the sky had let them go
long before our birth.
In winter we close the windows
and read Chekhov,
nearly weeping for his world.

What luxury, to be so happy
that we can grieve
over imaginary lives.”

The older my sister gets, the more she resembles our Dad's mother. I have a strong resemblance to my Mom's youngest brother.

My Dad was a no nonsense , anti silly , nothing I can’t do kind of guy.


My Mom was very practical, loyal and loving.

I’m a mixture of both. Except that I have never made the type of union they did. 60 plus years together. I miss them both terribly.

For just ten minutes together ….

Physically, I don’t look like either of my parents. I’m 6” taller than my dad.

My parents don't resemble each other but I look like both of them. Weird

Everywhere I went when I was younger it was "you must be (my mom's name)'s boy!!" I hated that shite

Never thought it would happen, but I'm turning into my dad. I drive along and find myself wanting to stop and get things off the side of the road: "that's a good piece of culvert someone just left there."

One of these days, I'm going to start flirting with the 50 yr old tellers at the bank.

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Physically, I don’t look like either of my parents. I’m 6” taller than my dad.

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Dittto. I'm six inches taller and 100lbs heavier than anyone in my family. They are all small coonaases or thin germans. I look like bam bam bigelow when he played football.

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of these days, I'm going to start flirting with the 50 yr old tellers at the bank.

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Been doing that since I was knee high to a grasshopper.

My son isn't even two and does the same thing. He cannot help but try to make a female smile.