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Do you have any connection with Poland btw?
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Hi Eklatekla,
The original family name was Chmielewski and my grandfather shortened it down to Chmiel. They emigrated to the US from Krakow in the early 1900s. Personally I haven't been there as yet, but I don't think there is any of the extended family left there in Poland.
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I see. Well, come to visit at least for touristic reasons (:
Do you know what "chmiel" stands for? It's a name of a plant: hop. (I'm sure you do know.) The suffix -ewski (and -owski, -awski) is a suffix which makes the word an adjective. This type of surname undergoes a change in the last letter when it refers to a woman. So your great grandfather was Chmielewski, but your great grandmother was Chmielewska. I suppose that your grandfather decided to shorten it to Chmiel because this changing form was problematic to use in the US.
I have a friend, who recently moved to Sweden with her man and they got married. His surname is ending in -ski, so she should have his surname and end it with -ska, but she decided to have a masculine surname ending with -ski to simplify it.
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I love that owl <3 i used it in one of my pictures
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Your work was featured here:Β fatimazahraem.deviantart.com/jβ¦
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That is a gorgeous shot 
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Glad youylike it as I was real close, as in inches using a flash and a Minolta 35mm f2.
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And the owl was like "I'm ready for my close-up!"
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i think i almost peed on myself. i was so scared. lol.
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Nothing to be scared of. He/she was quite nice.
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i wasn't peeing cuz of the owl, i was peeing cuz i had to.
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I think I blinded the bird handler with my flash when I took this one.
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