6/28/2023 0 Comments A year down yonder by richard peck![]() ![]() When you come to know your grandmother as a full-bodied adult, you may still love her like crab cakes, but you might, just might, know a few things about her that could make you want to throw her old relish dish across the room, too. ![]() If, on the other hand, your “Grandma” lived until you were almost 40 years old, and you spent 12 consecutive summers living with her, you might have a whole different impression of her. If the grandmother died while the grandchild was still young, this is typically something favorable: Ivory soap, rose oil, shortbread cookies, a particular perfume. If “Grandma” is perpetually frozen in time as a “dear” woman who baked batches of cookies by the dozen, I can usually surmise that the grandchild lost her at a relatively young age. I can often tell how old a person's grandmother was when she died, by the grandchild's descriptions of her. ![]()
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