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...many times removed—presents me with open arms and hugs from people only rarely seen. What begins as an awkward greeting ritual soon becomes so natural that you become the one initiating all the affection. At one point, I sat in the house of one of my grandmother??s cousins while she ripped out old picture after old picture from her personal photo album, choosing to pass on these images so we can study the faces of our far-extended family that we have never met and keep track of them...
Friend Wendy Rockman ’95 says that during his undergraduate speech, Frank moved his audience to give his grandmother??who was sitting in the audience that day—a standing ovation. According to Rockman, the woman was an inspiration to Frank because she went back to school to become a doctor late in life...
...certainly wasn’t your grandmother??s country club tennis match. Unless your grandmother tailgates. And carries around a cardboard cutout of her favorite player’s head mounted on a shorn hockey stick...
When Wagner won the scholarship, her grandmother??who had been determined to stay home in Omaha, Neb. for Thanksgiving—changed her plans to fly to Virginia Beach, Va., to hug Wagner in person...
...Although his mind was failing by then—most of our family had become strangers to him, myself included; few things are more painful—he somehow retained his buck-passing jujitsu. The belt hurt his back, and he was not about to buy my grandmother??s explanation that “I can’t get you up without that belt.” It was not his frailty, but her weakness—“You can’t get me up with that belt,” he retorted...