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Doubtful Antecedents
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This week we've been doing a spot of genealogy and so we're talking families, history and skeletons in the closet. Gill has discovered her ancestors are not who she thought they were at all, and reveals a fairly sordid tale of infidelity and illegitimacy, involving considerable judgement for her newly found great grandfather, and on Jo's side, it's her great grandmother who brings the scandal to the table. Gill also attempts to talk movingly about the unregulated adoption process in the 1920s, but Jo is more interested in musing on whether it would be possible for Monty Don to adopt her...
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