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Kistler.

In the city of Tübingen, Germany, In the region of Baden-Württemberg, there was the Kistler family. For generations the family had lived in or near the town, only occasionally branching out into other parts of Germany, and even more rarely leaving the country.
     The family bore many brunettes, with brown eyes and high cheek bones. straight mid-sized noses, full lips, and arched brows. It was a family of many men and boys, until three sisters were born to Odilia and Heinrich Kistler. The first daughter Inga Kistler, was born in 1897.
    The second sister, Ima Kistler, Born in 1901. And after her came the last sister, Käthe Kistler, who was born in 1908. Of these sisters, two of them married, the oldest staying single. Käthe would have a fairytale marriage with the love of her life.
      A Jewish german man from the region of Bavaria, which was to their east. This man was Freidrich Metzger. Together, Käthe and Freidrich bore three sons, named Klaus, Hans, and Otto. Klaus and Otto were twins, born two years before their brother Hans in 1926.
     Ima would bear the children of an unknown man. Her name would be Rosmarie Maria Kistler when she was born in 1929, months before her cousin Hans. Ima rushed to marry any man she found suitable, not wanting her daughter to be raised without a father.
      She would soon find a Frenchman named Jules, who was on his way to Stuttgart for business. He was in the same position as ima, having a 6 year old son with no mother, desperate to find someone to fill that role.
      The pair soon married, though they soon realized how little they had known about eachother. But besides the three Kistler sisters, there was also a brother, Felix. Felix was the youngest of the children, born in 1909. But he was the first to marry.
      Marrying a thin, tall blonde woman with fair skin, blue eyes, and sharp features. her name being Elsa. They birthed a tall, lanky son named Fritz in the winter of 1925. He would have fair skin, blue eyes, and snow blonde hair like his mother, a stark contrast to the rest of the Kistler bloodline.
      Odilia and Heinrich lived out in the countryside in an old family cottage near a river flowing through the city. Odilia had grown up there, then, her four children after her.
      The family spent most of their time together at the family cottage, the children playing in the large yard with the scrawny chickens and the three sheep. They ate filling meals at the long wooden table, and sang around the warm fireplace and it's glow.
      But besides the cottage, the children had homes of their own, now that they were adult. Inga lived about a half hour away in stuttgart, where she worked as a receptionist at a large corporation.
      Käthe and her family lived on a small farm near the family cottage. Felix lived in the heart of the city with his family.
       Ima, however, had a rough situation. For the 2nd year of her daughters life she lived in France with her husband and her husbands son Jean. Jean did not get along well with ima, but despised Rosmarie, even when she was a baby. In only the first year of their marriage they knew it wouldn't work, but, the whole reason they married was to give their kids parents.
        Unfortunately, Jean refused to see ima and Rosmarie as a mother and sister, making it all pointless. Before Rosmarie, or, Romy, as her family called her, was three, ima went back to live with her mother.
      Jules, feeling bad for her, would send her money by mail to try and help. They stayed legally married, yet never spoke. Ima knew romy was too young to really know what she wanted, but hoped she would see Jules as a father.
     Hoping at least one of the children would get a parent out of this arrangement. So beginning when romy was 5, ima would send her off to France to stay with her step father and step brother for a month or two at a time.
       Ima picked up a job as a waitress, and with help from her job and the money Jules gave her, bought a townhouse apartment for Her and Romy.
     When she would work, romy would go stay with her Oma, often accompanied by her cousins from Käthe, as Felix and his family became more and more withdrawn from the rest.
   But despite any of this, the family stayed close.