Time travel exists.
Research your family.
With each generation, they become so real.
Their lives, their households,
the births of their children,
the places they work,
and where they live,
the times they migrate from state to state,
newspaper stories of birthday parties,
their journey north from Tennessee,
the time they served in the military,
It takes you back, to the time they lived,
You sit at their kitchen table,
They welcome you in, and serve you coffee,
tell you the stories of their lives,
Their time of death, who was at the funeral,
what is written as their epitaph,
any land they owned, any written will,
what they died of, who they left it to,
and then you jump back to their parents’ lives,
and start all over again.
It is a journey into the past,
more than records, and more than graphs,
This is the family you never knew,
You share their DNA,
Their blood courses through your very veins,
They are a part of you.
cfblack 08-02-2016
Doctor Grandma 
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