Duty, love, and attitude

[Crazy Eddie]

Now I sometimes wonder if perhaps I did unwittingly meet my sister... and marry her.

My H has said that too - LOL. Because he was born in England and was adopted and my father spent 6 years in England, almost married a woman there but came back to Canada (and I still think I have a half sister there) he was a little freaked out at the thought I might be her or that we might have the same father

Interesting you should said that yesterday. I happened to browse various state laws yesterday afternoon and found that, in the event that we a discovered a genetic half-sibling relationship between ourselves ("without regard to legitimacy", meaning (I think) that the adoption didn't make it legally go away as far as incest laws are concerned), our marriage would become void and we would be legally compelled, under threat of jail time, to immediately terminate our sexual relationship. Or at least observe the Eleventh Commandment and keep it Wholly.

Anyway, I guess he knows differently now, right? Or is there still some question about who is biological father is? Either way, he would have much less reason to worry than I... for one thing, you are not the only person that has ever, to his knowledge, wanted to have sex with him, and for another, England is much more populous than my native state.

I once took as reassurance the fact that my wife had no close relatives that had ever lived within fifty miles of my birthplace. It wasn't until fairly recently that I learned that my birthplace is the one place on Earth than my biological mother was almost certainly not living when I was conceived... at the time, unwed mothers giving babies up for adoption were routinely shipped to maternity homes away from where they usually lived in order to hide their shameful condition from people who knew their families. There's no guarantee that she even lived in the same state, although it's not all that likely that she was shipped clear across the country or something.