In case there were any lingering doubts about genetics and heredity

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9. Oh, give him time.

He has Russians on both sides of the family (Petrov from his father's side, and Popkin from mine). He'll have plenty to genetic material to work with in case he wants to look like a logger from the Pacific Northwest when he grows up. As for me, just call me Rasputin III. In a capricious move several years ago, I came across, and bought for myself, the last portrait of Rasputin painted from life. He was assassinated a few days later.

Scary, ain't it? (Any resemblance is purely coincidental--I'm pretty sure anyway! )