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[frayleich]

And today I celebrate my grandfather, three years after his passing

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[anonymous]

I think we had slightly different relationships with them. You were Grandpa´s princess. You had the exact same interests as him... singing, theater, films, dancing, writing. And while you watched movies with either Grandma or Grandpa (I still don´t have the attention span to be able to sit through a whole movie), I would be a bit jealous. It´s not that I didn´t like the movies (I did!), I just couldn´t watch the whole thing at a time. And it didn´t matter that they stopped asking me if I wanted to watch them, anyway. It was your thing, and I didn´t like doing the same thing as you

[frayleich]

He then told me that he was so proud of how I turned out... and of my compassion. He told me (I don´t remember this) that at one of my birthday parties, I saw that he didn´t take any cake, and I left my friends to offer him some. I was touched that he would remember something little like that, although I did think, at the time, that that story showed absolutely nothing. Of course I would offer him cake... who wouldn´t