I mentioned in my Day 30 post that I’ve been working on a family tree project during the quarantine. I’m updating our family tree with any information, stories and photos I can gather. I told my mom about my project and she gave me a book that her aunt wrote about our family history. It was a fascinating read about my great-aunt’s childhood in 1920s Manila and how she became pioneer in women’s medicine in the 1940s.

Here’s a photo from that book depicting my mom’s paternal grandparents in 1920, a hundred years ago. They went on to have 10 kids, including my grandpa. I wonder what it would be like to travel back in time 100 years and meet them at this early point in their marriage. I wonder what we might have had in common.

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