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** 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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