The other day I was talking to some of my extended family and they started comparing physical features with dead relatives, I have my granaunt's eyes, my sister has the face of her grandad she never got to meet, we all have very similar legs, etc. Then someone brought up the hooked nose that shows up once or twice a generation in my family. I always thought it was just a fun quirk, in fact I liked it a lot growing up because that, in my head, meant we were witches, and witches are cool as hell.
Turns out someone in the family had traced our line back a long time, and many generations back, a single Jewish person married into my historically very catholic family, which is theorised to be where the nose came from. I have no clue who or when, because the person who traced the lineage wasnt there that day, but uhh. Yeah.
It really just hit me how long that single trait of having a hooked nose managed to last. After all this time. And that like,, you probably look like someone from the past, someone you might never know even existed, but you might stare into a picture of them and see your own eyes staring back, or the same smile your cousin has, or maybe you have the same nose