This Saddens Me
This may seem like a small thing, but this story from the LA Times really makes me sad: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-romanov11-2009mar11,0,2718194.story
The main point of the story is that DNA evidence has now pretty conclusively proven that all of the Rominov family was killed in 1918. Of course, many people will know that there has been an enduring legend of surviving children (Anastasia and Alexei). Using modern DNA techniques, it has now been shown that those two children did not survive the assault.
The reason this saddens me is that it removes some of the mystery involved with life. These kinds of little mysteries are really interesting to me, and, although we say that we want to know the answers, it's always a bit disappointing when these answers come out.
This may seem like a small thing, but this story from the LA Times really makes me sad: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-romanov11-2009mar11,0,2718194.story
The main point of the story is that DNA evidence has now pretty conclusively proven that all of the Rominov family was killed in 1918. Of course, many people will know that there has been an enduring legend of surviving children (Anastasia and Alexei). Using modern DNA techniques, it has now been shown that those two children did not survive the assault.
The reason this saddens me is that it removes some of the mystery involved with life. These kinds of little mysteries are really interesting to me, and, although we say that we want to know the answers, it's always a bit disappointing when these answers come out.
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