[Gort]

Oh my . . .

"At their home in Leipzig, Patrick Stuebing and Susan Karolewski are in the kitchen, playing with a young toddler.

They share a small flat in an east German tower block on the outskirts of the city. It looks like an ordinary family scene, but Patrick is Susan's brother and they are lovers."


Full Article, Courtsey BBC.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6424937.stm
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- Tom Carter

"You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf" - Jack Kornfield

[neff]

Yeah, i heard about them. Scary... but, that's love
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[Sup_Ben]

Alabama?

[Tomasis]

looks like children function well?!

[gLitterbug]

2 out of 4 isn't exactly well is it? I mean one has epilepsy and one has "special needs". Not that this couldn't happen in a normal family, but could it be that it is due to them being brother and sister?

[Impaler]

I was watching Maury Povich the other day and this couple came on. They were deeply in love and already had a kid together. Before they got married, though, they had one nagging doubt: they thought they might be related. A few paternity tests later, and it turns out they were brother and sister.

And that's when I decided that I need to start taking classes earlier in the day.
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QED, sort of.

[Gort]

euw

"Alabama" is a satirical and generalized reference to rural hillbilly culture, which is often portrayed as inbred. It could be any state or region prone to low income, rural working class people (even the Catskills of New York have hillbillies).

On a local level, folks here in Georgia use Alabama as the butt of jokes, as folks from Alabama likely do the same for Georgia.
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- Tom Carter

"You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf" - Jack Kornfield

[watmough]

Kinda how New Englanders feel about the entire South!!!

[Tinusch]

[Gort]

Not to worry, there's plenty of Yankee jokes to go around down here.
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- Tom Carter

"You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf" - Jack Kornfield

[watmough]

haha Gort I bet!!!...I remember when I used to live in NY,I visited Atlanta for a few days,and when people would ask me where I was from,they'd just say "I'm sorry".

[Gort]

Atlanta has actually changed in the last 20 years. There are LOTS of transplants from all over and especially from New England; there are even some Europeans here (I know people from Germany, South Africa and England). I for one like having the new residents and do everything I can to make these people feel welcomed. It's great to have northerners try well prepared grits for the first time and exclaim a liking. Atlanta has a lot of good about it; the winters here are short and property values are still very attractive when compared to the rest of the nation. It's certainly not as cosmopolitan as NYC but it's not bad. Now if you were to drive 45 minutes or so from in Atlanta in any direction, you will certainly encounter the diehard GA natives and likely get a few scowls here and there, but you'll find that most folks are typically nice all around.

Y'all come on down. First round is on me.
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- Tom Carter

"You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf" - Jack Kornfield

[Affected]

The first thing I thought, before clicking the link, was "they didn't grow up together". And lo, so it was.

This isn't actually unheard of at all. Apparently children who grow up with each other until the age of 3-5 or so, I don't remember the exact age I read, do not usually feel attracted to each other later in life, that is why people usually don't feel "that way" about their siblings. However, siblings separated at a young age and later reunited can have a very strong sense of attraction to each other.

[Jabo]

Mmmmh, sibling sex...