ancestor = "descendant"

[Jonathan Lighter]

The horror just won't go away.  At Thanksgiving my 8-yearold granddaughter, referring to an environmental problem, said "we'll let our ancestors figure it out."

  I said, "You mean  'descendants.' "

  She said, "What's 'descendants'?"

  JL


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