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[โ€“] kabi@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If your ancestry was a tree, what people think of when saying this is the tree getting uprooted, when it really is more akin to cutting off a two, perhaps three growing seasons old branch.

~~Which is to say that not even in this teeny tiny way do you matter.~~

[โ€“] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

Family trees can be drawn both with ones self as the root that everything branches off of as well as starting back as far as one can go and tracing all of the branches including ones own