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The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heart sick.
The sugars are here speaking straight into your ears.
I'm Steve Almond.
I'm Cheryl strayed.
This is dear sugars.
Oh, dear.
So won't you please share some little sweetness with me?
I check my bell vibes every day oh, in the sugar you see in my way.
Hi, Steve.
Hi, Cheryl.
So we're going to discuss today something that I've become really fascinated with ancestry and in particular what has been happening, as many of us have started to do this DNA genetic testing and getting information about where we came from, what our lineage is.
And, you know, I was born curious about this, about people and relationships and movement.
Where was the chain broken and unbroken.
And maybe part of it is because my chain is broken.
I don't have a relationship with my father, and so I've sought it myself.
And it's interesting because Brian has a different family, but also very similar in this way.
There's a lot of broken links in the chain.
To the extent that even.
One of the first things that I learned about Brian when I met him is that he grew up thinking that this man, Maury, was his maternal grandfather, and he was very close to him and has many stories about hanging out with his grandpa in Portland.