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You May Be Carrying More of Your Family Than You Realize (opens the original)
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Sometimes it takes another family’s story to help you recognize your own.Have you ever heard yourself say something and suddenly thought, Oh my gosh, I sound just like my mother?It happens to me more often than I’d probably like to admit.We expect to inherit certain things from our families. We see our mother’s eyes when we look in the mirror, or recognize our father’s smile in one of our children. Those connections are easy to spot.Others can take a lifetime to notice.Think about the way you re
What Your Family Will Carry Forward From You (opens the original)
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A few days ago I told you about the things our families leave in us — the expressions, rituals, interests, habits, and ways of loving or enduring that somehow become ours.But there’s another side to that idea.The brushstrokes don’t stop with us.Maybe your children set the table the same way you do. Or they use a phrase you once heard from your own parents. Perhaps you recognize a particular kindness in them that came from your mother or father, passed through you, and is now showing up in anothe
The Little Things We Pass Down Without Realizing It (opens the original)
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It starts with a small, awkward moment at the dinner table.The bird–either a turkey or chicken has been carved. Plates are stacked with meat and stuffing. Then someone reaches into the carcass or lifts the tray of bones and holds up a thin, forked piece of cartilage and calcium.It is a pale, Y-shaped scrap of bone, light enough to rest on an open palm, the two prongs spreading like the beginnings of a wish already half-formed. Usually two people are chosen—sometimes children, the oldest cousins,
What We Carry From the People Who Came Before Us (opens the original)
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Some things get passed down deliberately.Such as a piece of jewelry, a set of dishes, family recipes, or an old photograph with names written on the back.But families pass down far more than the things we can hold.If you’ve ever made stuffing the way your mother did, planted the same flowers your grandmother grew, caught yourself saying something your father always said, or comforted a child the way someone once comforted you — this is for you.We carry pieces of the people who came before us in
The Remarkable Story Behind Something You Touch Every Day (opens the original)
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In 1862, Osbourn Dorsey’s name appeared on a government document for the first time.He was eight months old.The document described him as “ordinary size, healthy & of dark complexion”. It assigned his tiny life a monetary value: $50.There was a stark reason the government required such a careful description and dollar amount for an infant. Osbourn, his mother Cristena (Christina), his six-year-old sister Mary, and his four-year-old brother Levi were held as enslaved property in Washington, D.C.O
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