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Old 11-20-2021, 10:53 AM
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I am 99.7% German. I was born in a small town in Missouri called Hermann. My parents did not speak English until they started school. I don’t speak German at all. I understand the world war 1 made the town afraid of speaking German. We had several festivals each year my father danced in. My parents were proud of both being German so I was afraid of doing the DNA test, but the results proved almost correct.
A few years back the wife and I visited Herman and really enjoyed our time there. My wife is from the wine region of Germany so she was interested in the wineries in the town.