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stories

so, driving across country with your family can lead to a bunch of stories.

1) how your one great grandmother was not known for her righteousness (this was nothing new)
2) how your other great grandmother was imposing, but forgiven because of her hard life (this was nothing new)
3) how much your grandmother actually remembers names and events from years ago
4) that your great grandfather had many many brothers.
5) that your great great grandmother came from a much different background
6) that all your family is not what it seems. it is much much more.

yes, it sounds like things of legend, or good fiction, but i assure you it's much more lame. thank goodness my mom is taking notes when my grandmother decides to talk. who is uncle-so-and-so? who were his brothers? where were they from? all this info is stored, and apparently sitting at the surface of her memory right now, so when my parents visit her weekly, they write it all down.

and that's just the info i've gotten from my dad about HIS family. not my mom's, who i visited this past weekend.

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