Old Riddle

This is an old riddle that I just saw again in the 'Detective Conan' Mangas I have been reading there are about 680 comics in this series and they keep making more.

It is a very popular series in Japan about a young16 year-old high school detective, named Shinichi Kudo , that gets shrunk into a 7 year-old kid and has to live with his best friend, Ran (who he is in love with) and her father (who is a detective) to try and catch the gangsters that shrunk him and get the antidote from them so he can return to his rightful age. As a 7 year-old he named himself 'Conan' after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle'(If you don't know who Doyle is, you don't read mysteries). Conan continues to solve cases usually making sure people believe Ran's father solved the cases (because no one is going to believe a 7 year-old can solve cases).

Well, the riddle is below. It is spoken by Conan's mother who is one of the few ppl that know his true identity. She is telling some people who she is talking to that Conan is a distant relative of hers:

"Conan is the grandson of the uncle of the daughter of the brother of my father"

Any good puzzle solver will easily know the answer to the above. Usually with riddles I try my best to inspect every line slowly and usually the riddle is saying in simple terms what the answer is. Some people think too much when they are trying to solve a riddle. Sometimes what I do is think that a child(no offense to children, children are our future..blah blah blah) made up the riddle so it can't be that hard to figure out.

So if you just look at the above riddle, the easy trick is to read it slowly AND backwards and pick out the main words:

The Answer is below but it is hidden so drag your mouse below the line to see the answer and explanation:
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Answer & Explanation:

Father's -> Brother (who is your father's brother? Your Uncle)
Uncle's -> Daughter (who is your uncle's daughter to you? Your Cousin)
Cousin's -> Uncle(who is your cousin's Uncle? Your Father)
Father's -> Grandson(who is your Father's grandson? Your Son)

So, Conan's mom is not lying to anyone when she says that Conan's is her Son.
Of course the above is assuming that the person speaking only has one brother.

I have you doing a mouse rollover for the answer because I hate it when I am trying to solve a riddle on a web page and the person has the stinkin' answer right below the riddle and you can't help but see it when you are reading the riddle. Then you are just like 'Oh crap! thanks a lot!'