Well, they always told me that musicians had it made in the romance department. Been a guitarist since thirteen. I'm still waiting, myself.
ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: THIS reminds me when kind, gentle, grandfatherly B.B. King was on the Good Morning America show and Diane Sawyer innocently asked him how many children he had. The look on her face when he said "Twenty-seven" was priceless. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I first saw this story, my thoughts immediately went to Howling Wolf, the legendary blues singer. Years after his death, two people in- Toledo, I believe it was- met, fell in love and planned to marry. They got the necessary blood tests well ahead of time, which told them that they were half-sister and -brother, through Wolf. Seems that he, like many old-time musicians, liked to spread the love around, and he had nine children by nine different women in Toledo alone. Those kids began a search for more siblings, and came up with, at present, 80 total siblings. > > "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:50pm EST > > LONDON (Reuters) - A couple discovered after they had married that they > were twins who had been split up at birth and adopted by separate > families, according to a member of Britain's House of Lords. > > British peer David Alton recounted the story to parliament last month to > support his argument that artificially conceived children should be told > who their biological parents are. > > Alton said he had heard the story of the separated twins from a High > Court judge who had dealt with the case. > > "This did not involve in vitro fertilization: It involved the normal > birth of twins who were separated at birth and adopted by separate > parents," said Alton, an independent member of the Lords. "They were > never told that they were twins." > > "They met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge > had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into > and all the issues of their separation," he said. > > "I suspect that it will be a matter of litigation in the future if we do > not make information of this kind available to children who have been > donor-conceived," he said. > > Alton could not immediately be reached for comment and no further > information was available about the twins or where they were from. > > "I think it's a very tragic story for the people involved," said Pam > Hodgkins, head of a group that helps adults affected by adoption. > > "It is a lesson that we need to learn and apply to the situation of > donor-conceived children," she told Sky News. > > "Whilst ... nowadays it would be most unusual for siblings to be > separated ... the risk of secrecy affecting the lives of people born as > a result of egg and sperm donation is exactly the same as the risks that > have affected adopted people in the past," she said. > > (Reporting by Adrian Croft; Editing by Stephen Addison) > http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSEIC17037920080111 > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" > > --------------------------------- > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
