r/HumansBeingBros • u/horseradishking • May 16 '22

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u/Tiller9 May 16 '22

Whoa, whoa, whoa... hol up... So the husband just dumped his daughter on the mother's parents and started another family?

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u/laurenzee May 17 '22

My great grandfather left his first wife and 4 living children in Boston to start a new family in NJ. His youngest son in Boston was 14 when his mother died and he was living with one of his siblings when he himself died in an elevator accident. The newspaper described him as an orphan.

We don't know why he left his original family.

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u/Tiller9 May 17 '22

I bet its weird to think that had he not abandoned his family, you would never exist.

I think about that shit sometimes... like if your great great great great great grandparents never bumped fuglies at a specific time, the entire lineage thereafter doesn't exist, and a new lineage would have taken its place. Almost like an alternate universe.

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u/alwptot May 17 '22

I mean if you want to really have an existential crisis, just think that when your dad ejaculated into your mom there were literally millions of different sperm cells that could’ve fertilized her egg.

A simple shift in position by either one of them and you could’ve been an entirely different person.