Surprising the IRS didn't bite on that.
Reminds me that years ago, my father tried to take a Native American deduction on his state taxes.
When the IRS balked at it, he explained that it was his feeling that his ancestors lived in America, walked across the ice bridge before settling in Europe then finally making it back to their homeland in the early 1900's.
The IRS said prove it.
My fathers reply, prove me wrong, did not sway them.
So, after a few years of going back and forth, the state offered a tax amnesty on past due taxes and he paid it off.