However, what she really wanted to talk about were the three family stories: the Spanish Princess, the Catholic Priest, and the Savoie runaway. While I was there we talked about her childhood as I tried to catalog every memory I could before she left us. The last time I saw Aunt Rita alive was while she was in hospice, in the final stages of cancer.
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Besides, I had no idea what to do with these ancient Savoie tales or how to begin validating them. Although the stories had their detractors, they both turned out to be true.Īs the years went by I pushed the Savoie family stories to the side as I commenced with the business of adult life. Both stories persisted over centuries, handed down by word of mouth from parent to child. Alex Haley based his “Roots” saga on a story of his distant ancestor Kunta Kinta making a drum for his younger brother on the day he was kidnapped by salve traders. Sally Hemming’s descendants claimed that Thomas Jefferson fathered her children. Old family stories that get handed down from generation to generation are nothing new.
Way father! We especially wanted to know their names, what they did, and what were they like. We loved to hear about their parents, their great-grandparents, and, if we were lucky, snippets of stories and legends that went back even farther. Some of our most treasured, earliest memories are of cuddling up on the couch with our parents, grandparents, great aunts and great uncles as they recounted stories from the “old” days.
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