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  • What a long, strange trip it’s been.

Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.

• About genetic sexual attraction, which sometimes happens when blood relatives who were separated when one or both were very young reunite as adults, and about this father-daughter pair who fell in love and went to her prom and are now planning to marry and have babies and live happily ever after? —Aimee Levitt

• That Chicagoan John Maloof’s documentary Finding Vivian Maier is nominated for an Oscar? —Zara Yost