- Farmers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grandparents Quotes
Roots often run straight back to them.
Heritage shows up plainly across these lines. One speaker's grandparents were lifelong farmers; another's carried an accent once resented as a kid, later understood as part of an Always-present identity.
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- Classic
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandparents and great-grandparents were classic East European/Russian Jewry. Quasky was the name until Grandpa Quasky changed it in 1948.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is from Canada. Both my grandparents were from Canada.
- Divorce
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandparents divorced, both of them, and then my mum and dad did. So it’s like, divorce, divorce, divorce.
- Kentucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm Cuban. Both my parents are Cuban. My grandparents are, too. Although I have no idea where Fit comes from.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020