"Today is my first DNA Day without her. It is such a highly-specific thing, but amoung other things she was my language and anthropology buddy. While doing research on some proto-Mongol tribes this past week I may have found evidence for a mystery in anthropology -within what happened to be one of our friend's family clan book of all places- which I know she would have loved to dive into.
I've been afraid of returning to anything I enjoy, like this. Part of it is just not feeling like it, but for most of them because almost all of them are things I shared closely with her. But I guess this is part of what it means to keep moving forward with life, without forgetting.
It also prompted me to check my old DNA test profile for updates. This time it came with a similar funny story to something that happened with [her] results a few years ago....She was a mildly miffed about it ... and now I am in similar shoes.
It made me smile a bit, in a bittersweet way."
Written 2022-04-25, Published 2022-04-27
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