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Is this trope Always Female? EDIT: Nevermind, it's not.

Edited by elvesinspace "The passwords of past, you've correctly guessed, but now it's time for THE ROBOT TEST!"

Cut this:

* Thomas Jefferson was accused by his political opponents of having an affair with his slave/sister-in-law, Sally Hemings, and took her on trips to Europe.

** No, that one's been proven more or less true.

Because, first, Thomas Jefferson was not married by that time; his wife had died years earlier. Second, contrary to what you may have heard, it is far from certain that he ever did have an affair with Hemings. There is DNA evidence that one of the Jeffersons fathered at least one of Hemings' children, but many historians have judged Randolph Jefferson, Thomas' younger brother, more likely to have been the father.

Edited by RTanker