Are You Closer To Your Mum Or Your Dad? Who Do You Look Like The Most?

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I have more in common with my Mum. Whenever I share time with her we go shopping and we spend time in the extension rather than going in the front room where Dad is. This may sound a tad strange but it works really well as Dad watches his own telly and Mum watches hers (they don't share the same taste in programmes) and he does come in to chat, then she pauses live tv so as not to be rude lol. Sometimes I will watch a football (soccer) game on telly with Dad and he likes that, I can tell. My Dad has his set routine every day that can (sometimes) drive Mum mad but she still works during the week...and she is dreading the time she will be too old to work. Having said all that they've been married over 40 years so they must be doing something right!If you look directly at my face, then Mum's you can see the similarities BUT I share Dad's eyebrows, chin and eyes but have Mum's thinner lips and nose. Strange that isn't it? I am short like Mum but my hands are like my Dad's with square-ish nails. My Dad worked outside for most of his working life but you would never know it looking at his beautiful hands. Gnarled they are not! I would say I share my love of the English Language with Mum and she is more open to what's on the news and retains more information than my Dad...although he understands a lot about the situation in the Gaza Strip...not that any of us are religious or anything. He just knows an awful lot about it and I can ask him anything about the Palestinians and the Israelis and he knows the answer. Maybe he has watched many documentaries about them, who knows?Mum once caught him crying a couple of times. The first was over a little boy that got killed by two other 10 year olds a few years ago. He kept thinking about Tom, his grandson, who was a similar age to the boy that died. It broke his heart. Another time there was a programme on about gorillas. Again, Mum caught him crying because so many of them were being shot in the wild for trophies such as their hands, leaving behind little orphan gorillas. Both my parents are compassionate in that way and I share that trait. I once saw a starving polar bear on "Planet Earth" and I shall never forget it!So, who do you look like? Mum or Dad? Who do you take after the most?