Tobias Forge
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You do the ancestry and, you know, you check your DNA and then you get like a whole slew of people that you're... Related all over the world, the place and, you know, dawned on me pretty quickly that if some of my siblings would do that, their thing is completely different. Yeah, that they they belong to some other family with their own background and their own everything.
You do the ancestry and, you know, you check your DNA and then you get like a whole slew of people that you're... Related all over the world, the place and, you know, dawned on me pretty quickly that if some of my siblings would do that, their thing is completely different. Yeah, that they they belong to some other family with their own background and their own everything.
And I really wished that they did in a way. But as far as I know, they haven't because it's it's it's such a trauma for them.
And I really wished that they did in a way. But as far as I know, they haven't because it's it's it's such a trauma for them.
So when I say the word fascinating, it's not always like from a joyful. It's it's it's from a it's really affecting stuff. And it really can do a number on someone when you learn something about your life. And especially if you feel that something that you believe was true was all of a sudden not true. In my family case, they are very well aware that they are adopted.
So when I say the word fascinating, it's not always like from a joyful. It's it's it's from a it's really affecting stuff. And it really can do a number on someone when you learn something about your life. And especially if you feel that something that you believe was true was all of a sudden not true. In my family case, they are very well aware that they are adopted.
So that so that is not a thing. But. I'm just saying that it's, it never does it become more clear when one does the test and, you know, you can trace back and the other one to you is like, Oh, that's cool.
So that so that is not a thing. But. I'm just saying that it's, it never does it become more clear when one does the test and, you know, you can trace back and the other one to you is like, Oh, that's cool.
It's an interesting concept. And I think for the most part, it's a really good thing. I do believe that. Simply put, knowing your history. And I found it to be very humbling to be able to look at my family tree and seeing all these people. Obviously, most of them I couldn't see photos of or I could only see names.
It's an interesting concept. And I think for the most part, it's a really good thing. I do believe that. Simply put, knowing your history. And I found it to be very humbling to be able to look at my family tree and seeing all these people. Obviously, most of them I couldn't see photos of or I could only see names.
But, you know, watching generation of generation of people struggling and more than often, especially when you go back 100 years. And it's common that you see a mom and dad that gets like 12 kids.
But, you know, watching generation of generation of people struggling and more than often, especially when you go back 100 years. And it's common that you see a mom and dad that gets like 12 kids.
Out of six of them die. It's wild. Like a year, two years, three years.
Out of six of them die. It's wild. Like a year, two years, three years.
Back then, it was a completely normal thing for us. It's like that's a cataclysmic event.
Back then, it was a completely normal thing for us. It's like that's a cataclysmic event.
You can't even say that they weren't suffering. But I'm just saying that it was like a completely different time. And they spent very probably spent very little time wallowing in affairs and worldwide.
You can't even say that they weren't suffering. But I'm just saying that it was like a completely different time. And they spent very probably spent very little time wallowing in affairs and worldwide.
things that didn't bother that that wasn't directly affecting them and they just kept head straight and and they worked and and they made sure that the kids that survived survived and and um you know i i have a tremendous amount of respect what's the word humility yeah like all that work that was put in order for me to sit here and talk shit.
things that didn't bother that that wasn't directly affecting them and they just kept head straight and and they worked and and they made sure that the kids that survived survived and and um you know i i have a tremendous amount of respect what's the word humility yeah like all that work that was put in order for me to sit here and talk shit.