About a week before Christmas, I spit into a plastic tube and shipped it off to British Columbia. That sounds weird – I should explain that it was for a 23andMe DNA test. I did not do this for any other reason than wanting to know more specifics about my health and whether my mother…
Oh, what you can learn from a tube of saliva
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