unearths some literary gems.
"Baraud was your great-grandfather, wasn't he?"
"My step-great-grandfather actually," Ann answered. "He was my great-grandmother's first husband."
[The funny thing here is that they're calling the spouse who preceded the spouse who was a biological parent of the grandparent a "step," where normally it would be a spouse who succeeded the biological (great-)(grand-)parent who'd be called the "step." So it's [wait for it] a "step" backward! (But then, since all genealogy involves stepping backward, does it cancel out and become a step forward? (:v>)]
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[I certainly don't agree with this, but I think it's an amusing bit of aphoristic nonsense.]
"You shouldn't read the books of people you like, any more than you should meet people who've written books you've admired. You're probably in for disillusionment either way."
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