re: #195 freetoken

Oh, we already know we have that problem. One reason I’m doing this undertaking is exactly because one fourth of my ancestry is hidden from us, caused by a need for secrecy on the part of a generation that found itself at odds with a wild young woman whose pregnancy was forbidden.

I haven’t uncovered anything quite that dramatic in my research, but it’s clear that my grandpa had an affair with a younger woman — my grandmother — that precipitated the break with the first wife. My dad said his parents burned all the letters they had exchanged to keep the events secret from their two sons.

I probably know more now about the circumstances than my dad did.