I draw, so observe people all the time. Most have variations within their body parts. The queen's face on coin or stamp ( I do not remember which) is the opposite way round to nature - it is her "better" side. It is normal for things to be uneven. Even as a child one of my feet was larger than the other as were my mother's. Some teenagers worry unnecessarily that their bosoms or private parts are not symmetrical - it is normal! My fingers close together inwards around the middle finger so my hands are slightly fish shaped. I am not deformed and my hands work well. Although during a fall I broke my left little finger so that no longer closes around its adjacent ring finger. We inherit very much. Sometimes I look at my husband's hands and am pulled up short. They are exact copies of his father's! It is more noticeable now we are older and he is now the age when I most knew his father. Jean Wood http://www.cheziris.eu/index.htm http://www.cheziris.eu/Duterrau.htm http://www.saintes-fleur-de-sel.fr/index.htm > Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:42:02 +0000 > From: valerie.lirakis@googlemail.com > To: SUSSEX-PLUS@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SXP] Bent fingers > > Patreece, > > Both my middle fingers bend outwards. I'm a pianist, and was once told that > it was practising at an early age that caused this deformity. I was never > convinced by this explanation, although neither of my parents had it, so it > certainly wasn't inherited. > > Valerie (in Saltdean) > > > On 11 November 2013 01:15, Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@powys.org> wrote: > >> On 10 Nov at 22:14, Patreece Palmer <arthur.patreece@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Some while ago ( several years!) someone on the list asked if anyone >>> from Sussex had the disfigurement of bent little fingers in their >>> family. I answered that query but to the best of my knowledge I had no >>> reply, so thought I would try again. My daughter, granddaughter and 2 >>> gr granddaughters have this. I was born in Sussex, in Brighton, and >>> wonder if there is any connection? >> >> Both my little fingers have a slight clink in the end joint and both my >> index fingers have a bigger kink in both joints. The latter was >> definitely inherited from my mother who had the same feature; she was >> additionally a very competent violinist; I have some useful dexterity in >> my hands and have never found these deformities to be any problem. It >> may even be that they enable the tips of my fingers to come together >> more naturally and so be competent at delicate manipulative tasks. >> >> -- >> Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org >> for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message