Amanda,
Thank you for sharing. That's so interesting. My grandparents were also born in 1896, yet I'm nearly 20 years older than you.
I just found out this past Christmas, while discussing my grandparents with my mother, that she didn't have happy memories of her own grandmother. Where mine (her mother) was a loving, jolly, compassionate, playful grandmother, hers (her paternal grandmother) was stern, cold and uncaring. So don't envy...you never know what they would have been like.
For great cross-generational friendships, look to your church, volunteer at the local senior citizens center where computer literacy classes always need teachers, or enroll your kids in an adopt-a-grandparent program. They aren't going to know their own grandparents, either, are they? Give them the gift of a relationship such as the one you missed out on, and I'd bet you'll feel the benefits, too.
Cheri
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