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title: "3 Ask Grandma Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [“One day a young girl watched her mother prepare a ham for baking. At one point the daughter asked, “Mom, why did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vicki-robin/one-day-a-young-girl-watched-her-mother-prepare-a-ham-for-baking-at/)

[Vicki Robin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vicki-robin/)

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> [Banging on the piano while my grandmother was watching me. I'd run up to her and ask: 'How was that, Grandma?' And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-robinson/banging-on-the-piano-while-my-grandmother-was-watching-me-i-d-run-up/)

[Craig Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-robinson/)

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> [I'd always ask my grandma, who was so, so smart, why she didn't work, and she would explain that her parents didn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reese-witherspoon/i-d-always-ask-my-grandma-who-was-so-so-smart-why-she-didn-t-work-and/)

[Reese Witherspoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reese-witherspoon/)

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