Who Do You Think You Are?
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Let It Go
By Tracy Farquhar

Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...
~Melody Beattie

The 23andMe DNA test that my ex-husband had gifted me for my sixtieth birthday sat on my desk for several weeks before I finally opened it. I spit the required saliva into the tube, registered online, and sent off the sample. Over the next few weeks, I got periodic e-mail updates on the progress of my specimen, and I was invited to participate in some surveys, which I would sometimes do when I had some free time.

When I opened the online results I found nothing that startling. I was shown to have 44% French and German and 37% British and Irish ancestry, with a bit of Scandinavian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Eastern European thrown in. There was an option to create an account and connect with possible relatives in their database, but I decided to put that off for a while. (Keep reading)