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And I have five grandchildren now, I feel very happy as an Irish grandmother to have five grandchildren, and I think about their world, and what it will be like when they will share that world with about 9 billion other people in 2050.
I wasn't raised in a religious Jewish home, but when I was young, my grandmother used to tell me stories from the Hebrew Bible, and one of them stuck with me and came to define much of what I care about.
He told her that her grandmother, the only mother that she had ever known, had been in a terrible accident and was laying on a couch in his house, calling for her.
Terrified that Natasha was going to lose her grandmother, she went with him.
But of course, we all know her grandmother was not there.
Then there's something that I call sympathy, a little more removed: "I'm sorry to hear that your grandmother has just passed away.
Your brain has identified the tablecloth with one from the past, maybe from your grandmother's house.
However, instead of remembering that you've seen it at your grandmother's, your brain has summoned up the old memory without identifying it.
They had waited their whole lives for this moment, just as their medieval predecessors had longed for the end of the world, and just as my grandmother waited for the Oprah Winfrey Show to come on Channel 8 every day at 4 o'clock.
And as she made her way to the altar, I snuck right in behind her, because I knew for sure that my grandmother was going to heaven.
My mother would say it was the ghost of my grandmother from the very first book, because it seemed I knew things I was not supposed to know.
Instead of writing that the grandmother died accidentally, from an overdose of opium, while having too much of a good time, I actually put down in the story that the woman killed herself, and that actually was the way it happened.
And my mother decided that that information must have come from my grandmother.
I learned this from my grandmother, Dr. Ruth Tichauer, a Jewish refugee that settled in the heart of the Andes.
During those trips, my grandmother used to recite a Kipling poem: "Something hidden.
After many trials, and with the help of my grandmother's indigenous friends in the mountains, we obtained a new device.
They design for everyone, from their grandmother in a wheelchair to the homeless woman they see sleeping in the park.
After she had been with us for about a week, she called her grandmother, and she said, "Gee, I'm staying in a great big house, and there's room for you to come, too.
Crystal's grandmother soon arrived from out of town, and they spent the remaining four months of Crystal's life enjoying very special days together.
My grandmother left school when she was 12.
My grandmother was a firecracker, my mom is a professional, my sister and I are loud, and that's our form of feminine power."
My grandmother could cure anything by talking the life out of it.
I used to look up to my grandmother who was a brilliant, brilliant woman, and wonder how she would have been if she had the same opportunities as men when she was growing up.
Now today, there are many more opportunities for women than there were during my grandmother's time because of changes in policy, changes in law, all of which are very important.
My great grandmother, from the stories I've heard, was a feminist.
My great grandmother did not know that word "feminist," but it doesn't mean that she wasn't one.
And if, despite all of this, you are someday diagnosed with Alzheimer's, there are three lessons I've learned from my grandmother and the dozens of people I've come to know living with this disease.
VG: Each night, before the first day of school, my grandmother would sit me next to the stove and with expert precision use a hot comb to press my hair.
My grandmother was legendary, big, loud.
One night after pressing my hair before the first day of eighth grade, my grandmother went to bed and never woke up, dead at 66 years old from a heart attack.
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