When I got home from work on Thursday, nothing seemed unusual. I'd relax, which a documentary or two, then go to bed. Everything normal.
Then I checked my email. I'd gotten one of those "you have a new relative" emails from 23&Me. A woman from San Luis Obispo, who genetically appears to be a 2nd cousin of mine (we share the same great-grandparents), had messaged me to find out what I knew about our shared relatives because her dad's birth certificate says "father unknown". Family talk had a name for this biological grandfather of hers.
That name, and the genetic map from 23&Me, point to my grandmother's younger brother.
So I started texting my mother, as this "unknown" man would be her uncle. Then we switched to the phone. The call ended close to midnight.
I was tired yesterday, as you might imagine, since I wake up at 5am! I didn't stay very late at 7th Period (our term for happy hour), coming home early. When I started dozing off while watching tv, I decided just to turn the thing off and go to bed. That was shortly after 8 pm!
Woke up around 6 this morning. Sleep is wonderful!
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