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My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's been a huge influence on our entire family, not just me. She is a mystery. It's not clear exactly what about her is truth and myth.

~Amy Tan

Topics: About Been Clear Entire Exactly Exactly What Family Grandmother Her Huge Huge Influence Influence Just Loved Me Met Mystery Myth Never Our She Someone Truth

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I was shocked, and I ended up contacting three academics to find out if it could possibly be that my grandmother was a courtesan.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Academics Could Ended Find Grandmother Out Possibly Shocked Three Up

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Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.

~Anders Zorn

Topics: Alike Cabin Cold Fell Goodbye Grandmother Inside Just Log Log Cabin Mother Said She Snow Some Younger

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My mother and grandmother both had beautiful skin.

~Andie Macdowell

Topics: Beautiful Both Grandmother Had Mother Skin

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How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

~Andie Macdowell

Topics: Agree Am Get Grandmother How Kids Like Look Me Old Supposed Tell Them Want You

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I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

~Andre Leon Talley

Topics: Brought Came Grandmother Know Life Like Love My Life Unconditional Unconditional Love Up

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I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.

~Andre Leon Talley

Topics: Admired Always Authority Began Confident Davis Dress Elegance Grandmother Great Humble Late Lifelong Love Wardrobe Who Women Mrs

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The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

~Andre Leon Talley

Topics: Chickens Childhood County Cured Door Front Grandmother Happiest Her Kitchen Moments Orange Outside Porch Screen Sister Spent Were Where

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Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.

~Andrea Bocelli

Topics: Beautiful Experience First First Time Grandmother Intense Italy Left Mother Person Pilgrimage Religious Religious Person Remember Sort Time Train Travel Very Who I Remember

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When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people lived there and experience my own culture was wonderful.

~Andrea Navedo

Topics: Culture Experience Grandmother Lived Month My Own Own People Puerto Puerto Rico Rico See Stay Way Wonderful

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