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Root


Five hundred years
Twenty generations
Five hundred twenty four thousand
Two hundred and eighty eight
Daughters

Blood as the only testimony
Birth as our inheritance

Our origins obscured
Entangled in a patrilineage
Names our fathers' mothers' borrowed

A tenuous affiliation
The endorsement of a contract
To perpetuate a bloodline

Our own names not our own
Our membership concealed
But time cannot extinguish
The immortal truth
That we are born of our mothers.



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Written on 2010-04-18 at 03:29

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PS 524,288 daughters is based on a 500 year ancestor pyramid for one individual, and assumes that a generation is about 25 years. In 500 years, we accumulate about 1,048,576 ancestors. Divide by two to get 524,288.
2010-04-18