I'm one of the whiter white people I've ever seen. When I was growing up, I figured my maternal grandfather was just tanned and weathered from spending so much time out of doors, until I saw a photo of him as a young man. It's a black-and-white photo, so you can't gauge skin tone with any real accuracy, but his features have some unmistakably African aspects. There's no family lore to explain it. As far as I'm aware, his family is German Jews all the way back. It's always intrigued me.
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