** Identical Twins Question
** Ode to Moses Lake
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From the “Ask Marilyn” in the Sunday Parade magazine: “If identical twins marry identical twins and each couple has children, are the children genetic cousins or siblings?” Her answer: “They are genetic siblings. If their DNA were examined, you couldn’t even tell which child was born to which set of parents. Not that any of the kids would look alike. They would look just as different from each other as any other siblings.” Any twins marry twins in your family tree?
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Found this in the Big Bend Register, Vol. 25, 2004, “Ode to Moses Lake,” penned in 1908:
There has been a wild commotion on Moses Lake’s green shore
A big dam has been constructed that will all the water store.
Upon its blue and sunlit waters you’ll hear the whistle of a boat
From the chuck, chuck of a gas launch to the steamboat’s deep toned note
It has lain long years as idle water dancing in the sun
God put it here for usefulness; man has now the work begun
Where the sly coyote and rabbit roamed at will so wild and free
Man has planned to make a city and a hummer it will be
It surmounts a grassy hilltop; pick the place you like the best
Where the sun rises at morning or where the boats land on the west
Streams of water will be flowing through the sagebrush and the sand
Big red apples will be growing; the finest fruit of the land
Then we’ll give to great Wenatchee the closest race of her life
And if you don’t just believe it see this land and bring your wife
Railroad lines will soon be running north and south and east and west
And the steamboats will be sailing on the blue lake’s rolling crest
And when other people tell you how their land is just a snap
Just brace up, be sure and answer Moses Lake is on the map!
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The WSGS Board is considering some simple fund raising ideas; we must fund our project and educational grants, of course.
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