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<\/a><\/p>\nThis was the big family secret that I only found out years after he died, that they were only half-brothers. \u00a0My great uncle told me the story when I said my grandmother had told me that my grandfather was “the handsomest man” that she ever laid eyes on. \u00a0 This was a puzzler as no one would describe my grandfather like that. \u00a0So my great uncle told me the story: \u00a0the mystery man worked with my great uncle, he met my grandmother, they got married (?) and he left her before my dad was born. \u00a0 Later my grandfather had moved to the city and lived next door to my grandmother. \u00a0When they married he made her a deal, she would never speak of my dad’s father, and would have no contact with his family. \u00a0 \u00a0She kept the deal, except for that stray comment.<\/p>\n
My dad lived with his grandparents when he was little and was a native Russian speaker. \u00a0He was a boxer, an artist and a bum. \u00a0He died in 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s a picture from about 1934. \u00a0 Seated is my dad and standing next to him is his half-brother. This was the big family secret that I only found out years after he died, that they were only half-brothers. \u00a0My great uncle told me the story when I said my grandmother had told me that … Continue reading Hillbilly nippers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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