No Retvrn—Asterisk
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An American tradition of embracing modernity.
No Retvrn—Asterisk An American tradition of embracing modernity. “Despain? Yeah, it’s a French name, but my family is from England for about as far back as it matters. Probably we came from some part of France near Spain before that.” It’s funny how incurious we can be about the names and traditions we carry. I grew up a Mormon from a long line of Mormons, who see family history as a religious duty. Because of that, it was my birthright both to have a stunningly complete family tree stretching back at least 15 or 16 generations down most lines and to mostly ignore it, secure in the understandi
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