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When my Uncle Tony first met Heidi, then my fiancée, he quipped with his particular brand of sardonic judgment, “She will improve the Barker gene pool.” Tony was a University of Chicago-trained lawyer, and brevity was part of the joke. There was no accompanying argument. None was necessary. He knew the Barkers. Viewed objectively, theContinue reading “The DiGiovanni Lineage”