Celina Quinones, from Denver, Colorado, discovered after 17 years of marriage that she and her husband are also cousins.
indicated that they are a match of 62cM , meaning the pair is likely related by 8th-generation great-grandparents.Unsurprisingly, however, skeeved-out commenters beneath her cringe-worthy confessional erupted with a groundswell of horror over the couple’sQuinones was admittedly “devastated” after learning that she and her husband are related, even though they are not immediate cousins.
But, in the years since unearthing their eye-popping truth, the kissin’ cousins have learned to roll with it. Despite their shared DNA, Quinones says she loves her cousin, and wouldn’t have married anyone else.Quinones went on to share that she and Joseph share a common ancestor by the last name “Herrera.” She then fingered their family’s“Colorado seems so big, but it’s really not that big,” she insisted. “Everyone knows everyone, and most likely, everyone is related.
However, the phenomenon is not unique to Rocky Mountain state, according to some folks in her comments.
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