WE are all related. To the ugly. The beautiful. The kind. The desparate. And the boxtop? Consider among the separate pieces we are as individuals that we each have 2 parents. We each have 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents. Continue the math back 20 generations or so to about 1500 A.D. and each of us were related to 2, 339,904 different people at the time. Take that back a bit further when the numbers surpass the population of the world, and it means we are all related, cousins.
"Your offspring," he said to Abraham, "will be as many as the stars in the sky." And so might our ancestors.
