I needed to do a post to test out the new [KIRWIN-L] tag at the beginning of each post - this won! Jana ~~~ The Family Loop ~~~ : : : Many, many years ago : When I was twenty three, : I got married to a widow, : Pretty as could be. : : This widow had a grown-up daughter : With flowing hair of red. : My father fell in love with her, : And soon the two were wed. : : This made my dad my son-in-law : And changed my very life. : Now my daughter was my mother, : For she was my father's wife. : : To complicate the matters worse, : Although it brought me joy. : I soon became the father : Of a bouncing baby boy. : : My little baby then became : A brother-in-law to dad. : And so became my uncle, : Though it made me very sad. : : For if he was my uncle, : Then that also made him brother : To the widow's grown-up-daughter : Who, of course, was my step-mother. : : Father's wife then had a son, : Who kept them on the run. : And he became my grandson, : For he was my daughter's son, : : My wife is now my mother's mother : And it makes me blue. : Because, although she is my wife, : She's my grandma too. : : If my wife is my grandmother, : Then I am her grandchild. : And every time I think of it, : It simply drives me wild. : : For now I have become : The strangest case you ever saw. : As the husband of my grandmother, : I am my own grandpa!