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My family is very unusual, but not in a way that I would ever dream of complaining about. Until just a couple of generations ago, we were all ethnically Inuit. While my grandparents’ generation brought the first infusion of European blood into the family, our cultural Westernization had already been mostly complete by then. The one major relic of our legacy that remains is a rather unique syncretic development. Long ago, wife-swapping was not uncommon in our tribe and often served to develop or strengthen bonds between otherwise unrelated families. As our ancestors assimilated, this custom somehow managed to linger, … Read more