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Opening an ancestral superhighway

Dear friends, Something ‘ important significant and necessary ’ happened yesterday. After waiting two days,   I opened the ancestry.com email and read my DNA   results.    I’d love to share this story with you. This happened   at 6.30 in the afternoon.     Outside, it was still fiercely hot.   I could smell the sandalwood incense by the swimming pool.   Evening was   still way over the mountain, invisible and far away, approaching   at its own pace.   I was cool inside my dimmed shabby chic small Spanish sitting room. After 2 months  waiting for the DNA   results, they had   arrived.   Disappointment immediately filled my whole body.     Strange as it may sound,  this was better than being completely, off the scale, overwhelmed.    I was afraid   I might have just exploded in a huge surge of emotion.   Where did   my father, Lionel, the wandering Jew, really come from? Where did he go when he disappeared ?       This question may never be ans