| 1 | Charles Darwin married his first cousin. | |
| 2 | Her brother-german went abroad where he was fourteen years old. | |
| 3 | Across the way their widowed first cousin lived in a yellow house. | |
| 4 | Darwin' s mother, who died in 1817, was a Wedgwood; he himself married Emma Wedgwood, his first cousin. | |
| 5 | At about that time, Osama' s mother arranged for her teen-age son to marry a first cousin, who was from Syria. |