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Sara ([personal profile] sara) wrote in [personal profile] flea 2011-11-23 03:16 pm (UTC)

Cincinnati, ancestral homeland of my great-great-grandmother Frankenstein!

(Pronounced Fronk-en-schtein, thankyouverymuch.)

In other words, yes, yes, very German. Well, Alsatian, in our case. I may try to hit you up some day to go on a field trip and see if my great-grandparents' house is still there.

Oh, and this'll amuse you: the primary survival of our Cincinnati Germanness is a tendency to refer to infant males as "Fritzl." To such a degree that some friends were convinced that my son's name actually was Fritzl.

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