21. Not only was his mother murdered, but his paternal grandmother later committed suicide. 22. Only her paternal grandmother was excited. 23. That same year her paternal grandmother died, sending her father into an intensified period of drinking. 24. Then there was his paternal grandmother, the youngest of five children, and the only one sent to college. 25. They maintained some Russian traditions, and de Ludinghausen learned Russian as a child because her paternal grandmother refused to speak anything else. 26. They wash and bless the child, say prayers and then the paternal grandmother wraps the infant with a quilt. 27. They note that his paternal grandmother was once convicted of heroin trafficking. 28. Two others, brothers who lived with their paternal grandmother, were adopted by her this fall. 29. Uncle John, my paternal grandmother, the cocker spaniel Sally. 30. As she left, paternal grandmother Mariela Quintana waved her finger when journalists asked if she was going to New York. |
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