Lineage - patrilineal, matrilineal - the lines of connection among family are not so easy. Relationships are complex, twisted and twined through our lives, sometimes the strands breaking. Each poem, anecdote, memory captures only one facet of those beloveds - parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. If the recollections seem bi-polar, contradictory, isn't that the very nature of love and lineage?
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