grandmother

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I took a photo of my yellow raffia bag, the handle tied with an Hermès horse scarf that once belonged to my maternal grandmother.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Puelm said he wished he had known earlier and been able to "ask more questions" of his grandmother before her death.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

“It somehow felt like it was upper-class,” Nana, my paternal grandmother, recently told me.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

"But I remember my grandmother and great aunt were so proud of Cornwall and everything to do with Cornwall, yet until they were teenagers they'd spent their whole lives in Mexico in Pachuca."

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

We went from playing Super Smash Bros. and ordering pizza to meeting my dead grandmother, being chased by a River God, fighting trolls, coming face-to-face with Bulgu, destroying a building, and slaying a sea serpent.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer