We can see how this might happen

This outstanding photo, taken in May 1973 in Old Frontenac, Minn., appears in the blog in its early days, but it was too small to make out all the stellar detail. Here's a larger version. Cousin Sam, understandably driven to madness by cousin Chris (not to mention Chris' positively harlequin bell-bottoms), tried to dispatch him as they planted trees on the Brobergs' land. Both cousins survived to become upstanding, and much better-dressed, middle-aged dudes with occasionally misbehaving kids of their own.