[Fictionary] Lierne Answers

[lindafowens at netzero.com]

HI, To add to the confusion, I am also a mongrel, if you go back far enough  ( I can almost trace my ancestry back to the time of Christ, with several leaps of faith and some DaVinci Coding)(my dad found, after 40 years of mostly primary research on the Farnsworths, that David and I each had a Norman ancestor at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and we know their names: a knight named Phaneuf--me--and Sir Peter Dodge, him), though my nickname is sometimes  "Li'l' Mutt" when I sing or make greeting cards.  My parents told me I was half American-English (Dad) and half Canadian-French (Mom), mostly from the 1600's, but they were of the time when everybody wanted to assimilate.  I had to learn my 2+ years  of Parisian French with a Boston accent in HS.  My mother was banned from speaking French in public, although she understood it; my dad would repeat whatever she said, so it was funny to hear the relays of conversation on the few vacations we took to Canada.  In college, I intended to study more French but was told I needed German for chemistry, my intended major at the time (I switched to biology, with many minors, then later studied printmaking at the graduate level (no degree possible) for 8 years at URI).  German came in handy after I married  David, who  was drafted into the US Army, and  we lived in Germany for 2 years.  David is of German, English, Scottish, French, and Welsh ancestry, mostly, and despite a drop of  Pilgrim (Bradford) blood, our kids and grandkids have  cousins, or at least friends, of almost every ethnic group possible.  Hooray!   LInda  PS Hope I haven't said all this before--I tend to go on and on and on....  PPS that doesn't even include former lives, which I can only assert but not prove(some clues from A.R.E.--the Edgar Cayce  Org and some from visions)(okay, I'm a weirdo):  English royalty--me (Hope I wasn't Bloody Mary, but my sister Jane may have been, or so I like to think); European royalty, probably at the time of Frederick the Great--him; N and S American Indian medicine woman in various tribes--me; a Roman/Greek confrontation in a vineyard (us); a time we were lovers in Salzburg, Austria, and walzed; and me as a Lighthorseman from Australia in WWI.  One past life service said I was a warrior in Mongolia, but gave up war to raise horses.   They got the loves horses part right.
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Pierre Abbat <phma at bezitopo.org>
To: fictionary at swarpa.net
Subject: Re: [Fictionary] Lierne Answers
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:31:29 -0500

On Friday, December 21, 2012 20:18:04 J-J Cote wrote:
> Well, you are dealing with a couple of guys named Pierre and
> Jean-Joseph.  And I assume Pierre is even some kind of French guy (as
> opposed to me, an ethnic mongrel born and raised in Massachusetts who
> just had a couple of years of French in high school).

My father was French; my mother came from El Salvador, but had French 
ancestors. By the time I was born, they had switched to speaking English, but 
I had plenty of French books from my relatives.

Pierre
-- 
The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on the Black Mountain.


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