The past couple weeks have been relatively tumultuous. I had to get my stuff together to move downtown Toronto. The day I moved in was rainy, dreary but yet, still wonderful. The feeling of finally leaving the nest was just too good to be dampened. My social calendar is filling up rapidly in the past days of being down here. Ahhh.
Many things have changed at work, a new era is upon us, whether it is good or bad has yet to be seen.
The walk to work is a dream, it takes less than 20 minutes and the hustle and bustle gets underway.
The feeling of independence is just..........bliss.
Speaking of lack of independence, today's feature birth is
CHANG AND ENG BUNKER
(1811-1871)
Chang and Eng Bunker were born to Chinese parents in Siam (hence the now largely defunct colloquialism Siamese twins). They were "discovered" in 1828 by British merchants and sent them on a world tour of curiosities. In 1839, they terminated the contract with the merchant and decided to settle down in the United States (Wilkesboro, North Carolina specifically) to make a hand at farming. On 1843, they married two sisters, Sarah and Adelaide Yates. Both couples shared the same bed for a number of years, until the wives got seperate households, with the men spending 3 days with one and 3 days with another.
They died within 3 hours of one another in 1871.
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