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To: Grainne who wrote (27336)	12/27/1998 8:06:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

My husband's dominant streak is so out of keeping with the rest of his character that I associate it with his German heritage. His mother met his father after World War II in Munich, his father was in the army and worked at a radio station, and so did his mother. His uncle was in the Luftwaffe and died at the Battle of Stalingrad. His mother was in the Hitler Youth, but he says that this was like being in the Scouts, and was expected, and didn't mean anything. I never met her, she died of an accidental overdose during the first Christmas break after we met. His macho streak comes out in very strange ways. For example, when the kids were little, it upset him terribly if they would take the cushions off the couch to make a play fort. It also upset him when they would take thread out of my sewing box and make a "spider web" around the coffee table. These activities were forbidden and it was non-negotiable. Otherwise, he was fairly lenient. He tells me that his German grandmother used to keep him in line by threatening him with Der Strewelpeter(sp?) which looked kinda like Edward Scissorhands, and cut off bad boy's thumbs. "Thumbs," I say, "Yeah, right."