learned to live with it.  Your grandma loves to cook, bake, collect china teapots, and read Nancy Drew mysteries books.  She wears a sweater to everywhere, because she’s always cold.  She taught high school English, for over 30 years, and retired just a year ago.  She’s a little, petite lady, with short red hair, and impeccably long, polished fingernails, and puts on this old, ratty, patched-up shirt to do her spring cleaning every first week of April, on the dot.  She’s soft-spoken, and hates to argue.  If the neighborhood kids are selling stuff for school, boy or girl scout troops, or whatever, they can always count on her to buy something, pizzas, cookies, candles.  She’s my dad’s best friend, always has been.  Your grandpa never misses “Jeopardy,”...

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