[LMB] Re: Step-grandpas are great!

[Peter H. Granzeau]

At 11:03 PM 8/31/2006, Jean Lamb wrote:
>When I was a kid, my step-grandpa _WAS_ Grandpa on my dad's side. 
>And a good thing, too, because my real grandfather on my dad's side 
>was someone nobody missed, and Grandpa #2 was, by all accounts, an 
>extreme improvement on the original. It was my job, when visiting, 
>to remind him to take his medicine (and his, to try to keep me out 
>of trouble, including picking out all the taller hairs on the couch, 
>which can get Interesting because there's always one more that's a 
>little taller. You can see where this can lead).
>
>He died of heart trouble when I was 10 and I still miss him.

I had a similar situation; my step-grandfather was the only father my 
mother ever knew, and, although he didn't adopt her, his name was the 
one she used all through school (in the nineteen teens, a child with 
a different surname than her parents was virtually unheard of), and 
was so much a father to her that her half-brothers and half-sister 
didn't even remember, at her mother's funeral, that they were 
actually half siblings.


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Regards, Pete
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