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ok, personal story here that tells WWAAAYYYYY WWAAAYYYY too much about my extended family.
I believe he is a distant cousin twice removed, but everyone has someone like this in his/her family...
Basically, the guy had a hard childhood, abuse, etc, and ended up basically raising his sister, a lovely girl about 2-3 yrs younger than he was. He grew up, married at the age of 20 and stayed married until about 26-27 where he and his wife decided the marriage was not going to work out. After a not so drawn out divorce, he and his sister renewed their childhood closeness and decided to marry. I am not joking here. They were allowed to marry by basically telling the state that they would never have children. I think the guy had to have a vasectomy, but details in that area are sketchy at best. He and his sister/wife lived out their years in happiness before passing away in the early 1980's.
Basically, the state will allow you to marry a relative, but there is a hodgepodge of paperwork, etc, that you must complete and from what i can gather about their life, the state seemed to be most concerned with birth defects that may arise from a bro/sis having children. Then again, this is SC we are talking about....
i know it sounds like heresay but it is traceable in my family line...although that branch died off when the only 2 children married and did not procreate.....
not sure what relevance that adds to this discussion other than a response to 'why can't you marry a relative"
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Chris
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