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I had the best grandmothers, B.
One was practical, pragmatic, gave you the hardcore facts laced with wisdom, humor and personal experience. Plus she stayed youthful, even though we KNEW she was our grandmother,
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I had the best grandmothers, B.
One was practical, pragmatic, gave you the hardcore facts laced with wisdom, humor and personal experience. Plus she stayed youthful, even though we KNEW she was our grandmother,
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she and HER children were raised like her FATHER'S (my great-grandfather, who I imitated as a child; hence the nickname "Old Man Wright", aka "OMW" on social media) children, so she played board games with us, DOMINOES (her favorite), card games, watched game shows,
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TV shows (got me into cop shows like L.A. Law, In the Heat of the Night, and we watched the very first episode of Law & Order, the original, at her house; my sister, my grandmother and myself), etc.
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Almost everything in my youth can be traced back to some experience being around my mother's mother.
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My father's mother was a pure sage... would literally sit similar to The Thinker, and you'd be asking her questions, she wouldn't immediately respond... but a few moments later would trot out some axiom that made you stop wondering if she was even listening...
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and then have you thinking about it for days thereafter.
I still find myself leaning on the things they told me in my adolescence, going on 42 years of age. And it resonates even more so now.
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I still find myself leaning on the things they told me in my adolescence, going on 42 years of age. And it resonates even more so now.
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And neither one of them ever went more than 100 miles away from their home during my lifetime (other than the latter grandmother mentioned here, who is part of that clan that we have in South Jersey/Philly, and we all went out there for a reunion the week before 9/11).
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Somehow (or should this not be surprising?) they were wiser despite not traveling or moving about much, than older women are today? Hmmm.
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