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Goodreads asked Dave Higgins:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Dave Higgins One of my great grandfathers was a member of the gentry but married beneath his station; so his family disowned him. Being an honourable chap, he changed his name, moved to another part of the country, and never mentioned what his previous name had been.

Depending on which genre one chooses, there's potential for a literary piece about the protagonist's search for his ancestors and the impact of it on them, a thriller about the severance actually being due to some other reason, or a more urban fantasy/science-fiction/horror piece based around finding the last survivor of a lineage with a specific trait (or exterminating them).

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