roots....

ok, so my spouse came home yesterday jazzed up about a customer who came in for a bike with his new wife........who is from romania.......gentle readers.....my spouse's grandmother came from romania when she was 14 or so with her younger sister( the ages changed with the telling of the story.....but they must have been young)......to cincinnati, where they cleaned houses until they had enough money to get married........anyway......my spouse asked the romanian bride if she was familiar with the 'hometown' of timisoara....in northwestern romania......'timisoara...she replied....of course'......and then she turned to her new husband and asked him if my spouse did not have the complexion of a romanian.....in all fairness......my spouse and his siblings mostly have ruddy complexions.....and his oldest brother has distinct mongol traces......which makes sense given the history of the steppes.........we are amiss when we say...definitively...... that our kin are german...this branch was only german after WWI......before it was part of the austro-hungarian empire........they are actually romanian......and they should be proud of this connection.........