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

About her life “as a teacher, as a grandmother, as first lady.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The bell chimed and the gnomes ran through the village shouting, “Elsbith, grandmother of Rump, has gone the way of all the earth!”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff