Family, Facebook, Family, Doggie

Genetics is always interesting, at least to the descendant. Fiorella has poked around in her own family tree from time to time and shared some of her inheritances with you,  so now she's going to drop a few more into the pot--like that she's pretty sure her lactase persistence  comes from the ten percent of Northern European in her blond father's bloodline. According to her research, it's an evolutionary thing.
     On the other hand, Fio's art, she thinks, comes from her mother, who was quite good at decorating and design and whose great-uncle was a potter. Mother also had a gift for languages. On the negative side, the essential tremor that Fio and Brother have seems to be a combined inheritance--both Mom and Dad had minor tremors in old age, and the genes apparently got doubled in us.
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Fiorella is on Facebook every day under another name, but she doesn't like getting into back-and-forths with people because all that does is solidify their viewpoints. Her usual tactic is to limit herself to just one reply so that other people reading the exchange can see another point of view.
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Back to the family. Dad, whose grade-school nickname was Bud, knew how to get along with everyone, much to the embarrassment of mother, who was uncomfortable with him talking to everyone in the Luby's line. (As you may have guessed, Fiorella takes after her father in this regard.)
     Mother was the one who raised Fio and her brother. Dad was at work during the day, of course, and having founded a bowling team, was often gone evenings. On weekends, he liked to play golf, but strangely enough, he had no interest in teaching his children how to play either one of those.
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Sonia Dog is smarter than Fiorella when it comes to 100-degree weather. There's no way she's going to go outside and walk up to the road with Mommy to get the mail in this heat.