I
had an ancestor who was a friend of John C. Calhoun, a racist leader of
the Old South, and his two daughters, of whom one became the ancestor
of my now friend Kathy Grace and her brother whom I haven't yet met, and
the other who became the mother of the mother (raised by AW Venable and
his wife, Isabella Alston Brown) of my mother. Kathy is an admirer of
the father of my daughter Joya Lonsdale, Ellias Lonsdale, a sort of guru
and astrologer in Hawai'i... she came here year before last just in
time to meet my mother, Barbara (or Isabelle, really) Hall Fiske
Calhoun, who died in April, 2014. How odd the universe is! Kathy and I
are now good friends... but in no way share the racist views of our
forefather! (She did get on well with my rebel against the rebels Barbara though!)
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