“What had driven us apart? What was so important that it had turned us into strangers, even today?”
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The Questions We Don’t Ask Our Grandparents
“We see our parents aging before our eyes, but we regard our grandparents as such oaks, their mortality not once entering our thoughts because they have always, to us, been old. By the time I began to realize the urgency of learning about him, he was gone. I never had the chance — or, to […]
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Those Summers, These Days
A woman who grew up near her grandmother’s farm with a large extended family recalls her childhood, and how things will be different for her children and their children as her family shrinks. (A Best American Essays 2012 notable essay): This shift is evident in our family. Counting spouses and not counting our cousins’ kids, […]
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Those Summers, These Days
A woman who grew up near her grandmother’s farm with a large extended family recalls her childhood, and how things will be different for her children and their children as her family shrinks. (A Best American Essays 2012 notable essay): This shift is evident in our family. Counting spouses and not counting our cousins’ kids, […]