What part of NJ, Mimi?
We had our neighbors over for Christmas Eve, and the topic of New Jersey came up. Our next-door neighbor (the husband) is from northern New Jersey, as is my husband and my dad. It turned out our neighbor across the street is from northern New Jersey as well. She'd been living there about four years, just shortly after we moved in. She started asking my husband about mutual friends/acquaintances...
and it turns out she's FIRST COUSIN to my husband's mother. :eek: They'd sort of lost touch several years ago.
I've had some small-world experiences, but that left us all dumbfounded. We called my mother-in-law then and there and left her flabbergasted too.
... Every place I've lived has been really white-bread except for two years on the border of the rez. But I miss having some kind of ethnic mix, any kind. At least with my mother being half Chinese (and mostly raised in China), my upbringing wasn't completely white bread.
