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The Grandmother Diaries - Memories and Deaths

The Grandmother Diaries: Memories and Deaths

2018-10-13
By: Live by Surprise
On: October 13, 2018
In: The Grandmother Diaries
With: 11 Comments

Two days ago, I found out that one of my favorite Great Aunt Jill had died. Her husband, my Nan’s brother, died while I was bursting pregnant with my eldest. I realized as I received the news of Jill, I have no actual memories of my uncle, even though heContinue Reading

The Grandmother Diaries:  My "Great" Aunt

The Grandmother Diaries:  My “Great” Aunt

2016-01-18
By: Live by Surprise
On: January 18, 2016
In: The Grandmother Diaries
With: 15 Comments

If you’ve followed my Grandmother Diaries, you’ve “met” my Gran.  All my life (and most of hers), Gran’s younger sister Minerva lived a block away.  I’m not quite sure how it happened…my Gran moved into the house she was in most the time I knew her after my Grandfather died.Continue Reading

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