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[โ€“] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

And that set the wheels in motion to create me. After their town was leveled by the Germans in ww2 my grandparents came to Canada where my mom met my dad.

[โ€“] Zwiebel@feddit.org 9 points 22 hours ago

The soviets kicked each of my grandparents families out of their homes in former easter Germany in '45-46. After a couple years of hardship as refugees they ended up meeting in the city I would later be born :)