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Who am I?

By Eric Felten
Published May 3, 2019 4:00am ET
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Who am I?
Yesterday my wife could claim a very modest Celtic genetic heritage, 6% from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales combined. Today my wife is fully one-quarter Irish. Four percent of her makeup had been attributable to Great Britain. Now it’s none. Her 9% Western European ethnicity has been replaced with 2% German genes. Who is this changeable […]

Yesterday my wife could claim a very modest Celtic genetic heritage, 6% from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales combined. Today my wife is fully one-quarter Irish. Four percent of her makeup had been attributable to Great Britain. Now it’s none. Her 9% Western European ethnicity has been replaced with 2% German genes.

Who is this changeable woman I married?

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