When I finally talked to my mom about the whole "how is everybody related" thing....

[conuly]

She mentioned somebody I couldn't remember ever hearing about. This is apparently because he died. Of cancer. Just like everybody else in the family (except those who had cancer and didn't die). According to mommy, this just started happening after Chernobyl.

If I'm reading this map correctly, Chernobyl is over 1200 miles away from Belgium. This is how far the effects went? Scary, no?

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[deceptica]

My mother always told me that we were particularly unlucky because usually the wind comes from the Atlantic... but of course on that day it had to come from the East and blew the radioactive clouds right across Austria. Sigh.