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“Granny was quiet. She was either contemplating Dwayne’s story or trying to come up with one that would top his. I shivered as I…

— Robyn Peterman

“From diapers on, I felt like there was something not good about me, but it was invisible to everybody but my mother. And whenever…

— Jerry Stahl

“I followed her from the MAX down an alley between a strip club and a Chinese restaurant. What?  Your grandma doesn’t hang out in…

— Stacey Wallace Benefiel

“Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.”

— Marcy DeMaree

“Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry that I don't add up…

— Cooper Davis

“I knew how I sounded - slow and oafish, like the cousin who gets ditched and goes on playing alone, as if he'd planned…

— Michael Cunningham

“My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way. I’d begun…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

“Mama was amazing like that; I spent most of my teenage years assuming that she knew nothing about me, and all of my twenties…

— Eva Rice

“It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.”

— Barbara Cameron

“When my grandma moved, she didn’t know anybody. But that was partly due to being in a new place, and partly from her dementia.”

— Jarod Kintz

“What did I ever do to deserve a grandmother like you? I don't know, but it must have been something wonderful.”

— Kaye Dacus

“My father used to say women yapped too much, that some women would be better off not talking at all. So I’d grown up…

— Lisa Ko