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re: Do you have any wild family legends about how you came to exist?
Posted on 3/7/25 at 3:13 pm to AcadieAnne
Posted on 3/7/25 at 3:13 pm to AcadieAnne
Tragedy at Sand Cave
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guess if it wasn't for a cave in. I either wouldn't be here, or have Collins as a last name.
Doing some family research, we found some love letters from Mr. Collins to my paternal grandmother. Apparently he was quite smitten with her. We don't know whether she didn't feel the same and spurned him or the cave incident cut off any chance at romance.
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guess if it wasn't for a cave in. I either wouldn't be here, or have Collins as a last name.
Doing some family research, we found some love letters from Mr. Collins to my paternal grandmother. Apparently he was quite smitten with her. We don't know whether she didn't feel the same and spurned him or the cave incident cut off any chance at romance.
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Posted on 3/7/25 at 5:48 pm to AcadieAnne
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about how you came to exist?
Not really but my great grandfathers sister smuggled booze from the north for Baby Face Nelson. lol. It was great hearing him tell us that before he died.
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Posted on 3/7/25 at 5:59 pm to AcadieAnne
My grandfather walked up to my grandmother one day outside DC in 1940, or so, and said, "Hi, I'm going to marry you." She told him he was crazy.
Not sure if that was his usual pickup line, but it worked, I reckon.
My mother called my dad's college roommate for a date to a Sadie Hawken's dance when they were in college. He said he couldn't go but that his roommate was free.
Not sure if that was his usual pickup line, but it worked, I reckon.
My mother called my dad's college roommate for a date to a Sadie Hawken's dance when they were in college. He said he couldn't go but that his roommate was free.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 6:23 pm to AcadieAnne
when my maternal grandfather was young, he and one of his brothers were playing with cap guns in an empty field next to a train track...apparently, some jackass on the train saw the guns, assumed they were real and shot my grandfather...the bullet entered his left cheek, and due to the downward angle, exited on the right side of his neck...there was a man who saw what happened, and he ran over, picked my grandfather up and ran about 10 blocks to the hospital with him...had the bullet hit at a slightly different angle, or if the man who carried him to the hospital not been there, i might not be typing the story now...
Posted on 3/7/25 at 6:59 pm to ccard257
quote:The maternal great grandfather of three of my grandkids was also a Bataan survivor.
My kids are even lower odds as my wife's grandfather was a Bataan death march/prison camp survivor.
He died in 2019 at age 98.
He also fathered a son who is now 45 years-old.
That dude tripped his schoolmates out when it came to Parents Day.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 7:06 pm to nealnan8
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My great x5 grandfather was a pirate by the name of Jean Lafitte
Not that there is anything wrong with this, but you must have some black Creole or African blood in you, because Lafitte's only known wife that he bore kids with was Catherine Villard, a free women of color.
No doubt.. and yeah if i found out that i had some ‘flavor’ or some ‘sexual chocolate’ in my blood, it’d be fine with me… but the story id always heard is that Jean Lafitte was actually part Jewish, so ive always felt a little bit of kinship with the Jews ive known.. and it would also explain my lifelong attraction to Jewish chicks , with their dark features and huge cans… i dated three Jewish girls in Louisiana when i was younger, and because i didnt know a ton of Jewish people back then, i used to joke that i dated the only three Jews in Louisiana , outside of Uptown New Orleans of course .
Posted on 3/8/25 at 7:33 am to BK Lounge
Great family story. Cheers!
Posted on 3/8/25 at 9:16 am to BK Lounge
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i dated the only three Jews in Louisiana
if that’s the case it’s quite possible that you and I are Eskimo bros, multiple Eskimo bros
Posted on 3/8/25 at 9:27 am to Honest Tune
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Thanks for sharing, Ms. Brown.
Brown is down the list from Williams, Johnson, Smith, and Jones with WeeYums being #1
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