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Venus55

Venus55

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Bareback said:
After becoming a father I realized many things, and one thing was the meaning of the term " mean people " .
Mean people have a thorn bush growing right outside of the front door, so that when they are pissed at the young'ens the first bush they come to for a switch is said thorn bush, upon this realization I never looked at my grandparents the same again.
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BudmanTX said:
i am, her health is declining, but i still cherish the memories we have and had, and hoping we have many many more.....i lost my grandfather earlier this year on Valentines day, he was my fishing buddy for a lot of years. Dunno how many time we went hunting and fishing, and all the time we were drunk on a boat.......miss that old guy. Taught me a lot of wonderful things......
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GreatwhiteNorth said:
You are lucky to still have her.
Cherish your relationship - I still miss my Grandmothers & they have been gone more than a few years.
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You’re all very lucky to have had grandparents in your life. My parents came here from France when I was 2yo. My dad had no intention of ever seeing anyone from his family again. Both his parents are dead now. In 2010 I managed to find one of his 6 sisters on fb (all married with different surnames) and was able to finally see a picture of their mum, my grandmother. 8109E27C-ABA0-42C2-88EF-4CA7D80EBEAB.jpeg

I’ve never seen a picture of his dad.



My grandmother on my mums side is still alive. I send her letters and cards and an occasional phone call, but we’ve never met. Mums dad (below right) died about 20 years ago. I never heard his voice. 178ABF58-F8E9-4390-8028-01CCCC4B9F9E.jpeg
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I was always envious of friends that would spend holidays with their grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins etc.
So many of them have special memories of those times, my own parents included. I always felt like I was missing part of the puzzle..
 
Bareback

Bareback

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Venus55 said:
You’re all very lucky to have had grandparents in your life. My parents came here from France when I was 2yo. My dad had no intention of ever seeing anyone from his family again. Both his parents are dead now. In 2010 I managed to find one of his 6 sisters on fb (all married with different surnames) and was able to finally see a picture of their mum, my grandmother. View attachment 4212610

I’ve never seen a picture of his dad.



My grandmother on my mums side is still alive. I send her letters and cards and an occasional phone call, but we’ve never met. Mums dad (below right) died about 20 years ago. I never heard his voice. View attachment 4212619
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I was always envious of friends that would spend holidays with their grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins etc.
So many of them have special memories of those times, my own parents included. I always felt like I was missing part of the puzzle..
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I'm sorry to hear that missed out on grandparents, as a grandpa of three I can assure you that there's nothing like it for both the children and the adults.
 
BudmanTX

BudmanTX

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Venus55 said:
You’re all very lucky to have had grandparents in your life. My parents came here from France when I was 2yo. My dad had no intention of ever seeing anyone from his family again. Both his parents are dead now. In 2010 I managed to find one of his 6 sisters on fb (all married with different surnames) and was able to finally see a picture of their mum, my grandmother. View attachment 4212610

I’ve never seen a picture of his dad.



My grandmother on my mums side is still alive. I send her letters and cards and an occasional phone call, but we’ve never met. Mums dad (below right) died about 20 years ago. I never heard his voice. View attachment 4212619
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I was always envious of friends that would spend holidays with their grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins etc.
So many of them have special memories of those times, my own parents included. I always felt like I was missing part of the puzzle..
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i was very lucky overall Venus.....for me i was adopted into a very big family. Most the were still alive in those times. At the highet i had 1 great grandmother, 2 grandmother, 1 great uncles, 2 great grandfathers and so on....I was lucky, cause in those time it was hard, very hard to adopted a kid at that age. We were considered the lost children....So i feel ya, and where your coming from.......
 
BudmanTX

BudmanTX

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Speaking of.....
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This is my mother...after 30+ years or so i found her with help from my wife and searching through records that i had.....this would be the last picture i have of her cause in a couple months after this picture she passed due to cancer. I miss to this day, wishing i could have a couple more words with her and her smile.....that side of the family doesn't even reconize me and part of them. From her i have 3 brothers i've never met and 1 sister.....She had a wonderful life, i have some of her ashes under a red rose bush which is blooming right now.........
 
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