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I knew my great-grandmother, few people do. My great-great-grandmother is an ancient picture on the wall of my dead grandmother's house, from a time when photography was new, a scant few years past daguerreotypes.
4 mothers back is all I can summon, only remember 3.
4 mothers back is all I can summon,
What's the spell?
"I'm feeling hungry and mildly pregnant"
I knew two of my great grandmothers (yay for really young parents!). I know I met two others but didn't really know them.
I was told that I met my great great grandmother once when I was a toddler but I don't remember it. She died at age 99.
I was thinking that it's now 81 mothers ago, but then I got distracted by the fact that there was no year 0AD and now I'm thinking that roughly 80 is good enough.
A wild Danzig approaches
Whoops, I'm suddenly bleeding
Let's push it one step further and frame history since agriculture, 9500 years ago, against the upper limit of a human lifetime now, about 100 years. This would mean recorded times started only less than 100 human lifespans ago. Bleh
So that's about 13,000 homo sapiens mothers?