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Today I realized the oddest thing.

I was sitting at the piano in my parents' living room, putzing around with some song I've been working on for ages, and I got distracted looking at the family photos my mum has put up on display on top of the piano. There are some old ones of her mother and father as a young couple that she just recently got colorized and framed that I'd never really paid attention to before, but something in one of them caught my eye today: My nana's eyebrows.

I have my nana's eyebrows.

Now, I know that that sounds a little odd, I mean, eyebrows are a changeable feature, and not one that people generally talk about inheiriting. My eyebrows, however, are a little odd. One is rounded, and a little higher, and the other is straight, and lower. It's not something you'd really notice unless you were studying my face carefully, but it's there. Looking up at that picture of my Nana today, I realized she had the exact same thing. One higher and rounded, the other straight and lower down. Just a little lopsided.

It gave me a strange sense of history, of a connection of blood and bone and shared genetic stories passed down through the years.







Speaking of history, I still haven't started writing my paper.


EDITED TO ADD:
ok, i give in. it's narcissistic and masturbatory, but i made a quiz about myself. and now i foist it upon you!
quiztastic!