Name: Couple Finds Out Neighbors Are Their Cousins
Uploaded: 2020-05-01T18:26:52.000Z
Duration: 2 min 6 s
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They say in every cloud there's a silver lining 2

Past simple

and this very dark Covid-19 cloud had the surprising impact 3

Gerund

of helping two families who had no idea they were related 4

connect, Jim Moret explains how it happened. 5

These neighbors have not only become good friends 6

during the pandemic, they've also found out they're family. 7

Chetel Njoten and his wife and son, moved onto the block 8

in La Cresenta California just a few months ago. 9

Not knowing the Covid-19 pandemic was about 10

to blanket the world, as they got to know their neighbors 11

from a social distance, they learned that they shared 12

Norwegian heritage with their neighbors, Eric and Jen Strom. 13

How did the topic of where you came from 14

We all have Norwegian background in some way, 16

shape or form so that's how we had originally 17

I was looking for some of my husbands relatives 19

We're supposedly from this small island 22

and then they joked, oh wouldn't it be funny, 25

I'm from Njoten, wouldn't that be funny 26

When Eric mentioned it, Njoten sounds familiar 28

I'm like, no it's not, 'cause this place is just so small 29

Chetel comes from a small island in Norway called Njoten. 31

It just happens to be the same last name as Chetel's 33

the two men who live just four houses apart from each other 36

were shocked to learn that they're families 37

were not only from the same island, 5000 miles away, 38

they also share the same great, great grandfather, 39

If we hadn't of moved here, I don't think 41

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Couple Finds Out Neighbors Are Their Cousins

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