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Hopefully this makes sense as I’m still wrestling with it. Growing up, my mother constantly harped about her “need” for family. She told us that she was an orphan (raised by her stepmother) and family was the most important thing in her life (and she’s even gone on the hunt for distant relatives). So, growing up, I was always told that my maternal grandmother was Swedish and my maternal grandfather was English. When I was tasked with creating family trees in school, I used the information provided to me by my mother (complete with names/dates). A few years ago, when I started using AncestryDNA to build a better family tree, I was having problems because not a single name from my mother’s side was showing up. My grandfather supposedly worked for a major company (that’s still in existence), but they had no record of him working there. Two years ago, I finally took a DNA test and admit to being quite surprised. My father’s side was accurate but my mother’s side was comprised of Eastern European, German, Jewish, and Russian (Belarus). No Swedish. No English. Well, color-me surprised. Last week, my mother was telling me how she got her results from 23 and Me and she asked if I’d done it. I told her yes. She asked what my genealogy results were. So I told her (paraphrased) that I found it interesting that growing up, I was always told what my ancestry was and how surprised I was to find out that it was completely different. She has a quick comeback about how “she’s never worried about any of that and how she doesn’t understand why anyone would be bothered by it and they just needed to get over it.” Now, here’s my quandary. I grew up constantly being told how important family was, and her “stepmother” was always treated as a bit less than, even though she raised her and helped raise my siblings. But my mother always kept her at a distance from us (and it didn’t help that she didn’t speak English and my mother was really against me learning her language). Have you figured it out yet? A’yup. That was her real mother. I’m 50yo and only now found out that was my maternal grandmother the whole time. So I’m completely flummoxed as to why someone who harped and harped about how important family is, would treat her own mother (as far as I know, they had a good relationship) that way AND lie about who her family is.So, does this change the way I see them? Not exactly. It just adds another item to the list of things that don’t make sense and I find disheartening.

If you're founding a city and have hundreds of streets to name, the selection process goes much faster with a theme. My hometown of Modesto, CA, uses identical nomenclature for one of its newer subdivisions — but the Palo Alto literary street names date back more than 100 years.The Stanford family tasked Timothy Hopkins with establishing a new town for their university community in 1887. He's the pioneer who named neighborhood streets after trees, colleges, and literary personages. Hopkins collaborated with a Southern Pacific Railroad land agent, William Mills, who was a Unitarian, which is why several of the chosen writers have Unitarian connections.Property owner Alfred Seale subdivided his land in 1898 and continued Hopkins' author theme, first with Churchill Street and then with Coleridge, Lowell, and Tennyson avenues.Here's a complete list:Addison Avenue, named for English essayist Joseph William AddisonBret Harte Steet, named for the American author and poetBryant Street, named for American poet and editor William Cullen BryantByron Street, named for English poet Lord George Gordon ByronChanning Avenue, named for author and Unitarian minister William Ellery ChanningChaucer Street, named for English poet Geoffrey ChaucerChurchill Street, named for American novelist Winston ChurchillColeridge Avenue, named for English poet Samuel Taylor ColeridgeCowper Court and Cowper Street, named for English poet William CowperEmerson Street, named for American author (and Unitarian) Ralph Waldo EmersonHale Street, named for American writer and Unitarian pastor Edward Everett HaleHawthorne Avenue, named for American author Nathaniel HawthorneHomer Avenue, named for the Greek epic poet of the 7th/8th century B.C.Keats Court, named for English poet John KeatsKingsley Avenue, named for English clergyman, historian and novelist Charles KingsleyKipling Street, named for English author Rudyard KiplingLowell Avenue, named for American poet and diplomat James Russell LowellLytton Avenue, named for English novelist Edward George Earle LyttonMark Twain Street, named for the pseudonym of American author Samuel ClemensMarlowe Street, named for English dramatist Christopher MarloweMelville Avenue, named for American novelist Herman MelvillePoe Street, named for American author Edgar Allen PoeRamona Street, named for the heroine in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona; Jackson was an American writerSeneca Street, named for Roman philosopher and dramatist Lucius Annaeus SenecaTasso Street, named for the Italian poet of the late Renaissance, Torquato TassoTennyson Avenue, named for English poet Alfred Lord TennysonWaverley [sic] Street, named for Waverley, a novel by Sir Walter Scott, whose subsequent novels were attributed to "the author of Waverley"There are other themes, too: Trees, Spanish names, states, presidents, universities, developers and friends of the developers. Dana Avenue is often attributed to author Richard Henry Dana, but the name actually honors William Dana, an associate of a local realtor.Source: The Palo Alto Historical Association publishes Streets of Palo Alto, an exhaustive look at the story behind every street name in the city, updated every couple years. The only street whose story hasn't yet been traced is High Street, which Hopkins named for "reasons unknown today." How did High Street get its name?