Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The Lindberghs

People keep asking me how many families the famous flyer Charles Lindbergh had, as if I would know. He was married to Anne Lindbergh, historians tell us, and they had six children, if memory serves. Along with that family, he had three German families, in which he fathered seven additional children, as established by DNA tests. Two of the women involved were sisters. That brings the total to 13,  but what about the many delightful if short encounters he had with women on darker continents? Lindbergh flew from place to place. He was a great joker who used false names, so he might have had another 10 or 12 children we haven't heard from. The important thing is that Lindbergh was a great hero, much like John Wayne. Anne Lindbergh wrote books and had an affair with her doctor, but the two had no issue.

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