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My Two Grandmas
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Mothers & Daughters
By Sarah Foster
Grandmothers always have time to talk and make you feel special.
~Catherine Pulsifer
I’d known these two women for my whole life, but I’d never seen them in the same room. Both were my grandmothers, one by blood and one by marriage. They’d married the same man — my grandfather. He’d divorced one of them and then married the other. He’d passed away four years earlier.
My two grandmothers hated one another. Even though the man they’d fought over was gone, they still despised each other. For my entire life, we’d celebrated holidays with them separately because they’d insisted on it. Even after my grandfather had died, they still refused to be in one another’s presence.
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