You appear in your mother when she is in her mother’s womb. Before they’re even born, girls have all the eggs they’ll ever have, and so you come into being in the year of your grandmother’s pregnancy. You have two birthdays. You absorb ideas from previous generations; of course you do. A folksy saying that your father got from his mother who got it from her uncle might come out of your mouth without any intentional effort. I say ‘scuttlebutt’ not to sound cute: I say it because that’s what it is. Scuttlebutt.
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