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38. My great uncle was a spy for the kaiser in WWI

Fri Jan 16, 2026, 03:45 PM

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A brilliant chemist, he gave himself up after falling in love with my great aunt, whose brother, my grandfather, was serving under Pershing at the Mexican border. When I met him, he was in his 80s and recovering from a stroke. Another odd thing about him: he was immune to tooth decay and even at the age he was when I met him he still had all his teeth.

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