Grandparents

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puppetmaker tells us that today is Grandparents Day. Currently, it is not officially recognized in Canada. That may change.

I have no living grandparents. The last of them died over twenty years ago in Saskatchewan, if memory serves. My mother was able to go to her funeral, but she was alone in that. The rest of us couldn't.

I miss them all, but for the maternal grandfathers - one by birth, the rest by marriage to that grandmother - that I never got to know. Work was too nasty, brutish and lethal back in those days of my mother's childhood.