-----Original Message----- From: Lafnear, Joseph <[email protected]> To: Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 5:35 AM Subject: FW: Genealogical confusion >Just a little laugh, glad this isn't me. > > >> Thought I should share the >> following with you to lighten the load: >> >> Many many years ago when I was twenty three, >> I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be. >> This widow had a grown-up daughter who had 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. >> 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. >> >> may all your brick walls turn to cardboard >> David Baxendell >> Christchurch >> New Zealand >> >> ______________________________ >