This isn't a game that I used to play, but I have heard of it. It certainly makes an interesting challenge for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.
Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1. Let's play the game "Two Truths and One Lie." Tell three family stories — two must be true, and one must be a lie, an untruth.
2. Have your readers guess which story is the lie and give their reasons for picking that story.
3. Share your three stories on your own blog, on Facebook or other social media, or in a comment on this blog. Share the link to your stories on this blog, so readers can respond.
4. After all comments are in, share the lie in a comment on your post.
Okay, here goes.
1. My great-great-grandmother Martha Winn (1837–1884) was three months pregnant when she married my great-great-grandfather Frederick Cleworth Dunstan (1840–1873) in 1858.
2. My great-grandmother Jane Dunstan (1871–1954) was three months pregnant when she married my great-grandfather Thomas Kirkland Gauntt (1870–1951) in 1891.
3. My mother, Myra Roslyn Meckler (1940–1995), was three months pregnant when she married my father, Bertram Lynn Sellers, Jr. (1935–2019), in 1961.
Which story is the lie? Why do you think that story is the lie?
The Big Reveal
Even though Randy's instructions said to share the lie in a comment, everyone else updated the original post, so I'll do that also. The lie is #2. My great-grandmother was actually six months pregnant when she married my great-grandfather. I guess the Nineties were a little more swinging than the Sixties in this case.
I am going to go with #2 based on the dates.
ReplyDeleteThank you for being the first commenter!
DeleteNumber three is a lie. Myra died in 1955 and married in 1961.
DeleteLinda Stufflebean pointed out my error, because if those dates really had been accurate, she couldn't have been my mother. Given that, perhaps you would like to reconsider?
DeleteYou have a typo in your mother's dates. Otherwise, she died six years before marrying. I'm going to go with #3 as the fib. The 50s were a big change in terms of social morality and then we know what happened with the Swinging 60s!
ReplyDeleteThanks for catching my mistake, Linda. It was me thinking of how old my mother was when she died. I have corrected it.
DeleteI think it was #3. #1 is likely to be true - she was 4 years older and probably wiser. #2 is possible.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Randy! Although in #1 she was only three years older (I don't know how much wiser, though).
DeleteWell... I learned something new about my grandparents!
DeleteI guess you are taking that to be one of the truths!
DeleteI have no idea. All seem possible. I didn't play this game, as I didn't want any falsehoods written on my blog.
ReplyDeleteAh! I was wondering why I had not seen a post by you. Thank you for the explanation.
Delete#3. Because the sixties!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your vote!
DeleteAnd the lie is (drumroll): #2! My great-grandmother was actually six months pregnant when she married my great-grandfather. So the Sixties were not as bad as some thought.
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