I dont want my grandmother to see me seeing her get old

March 28, 2016 14:42

"My grandmother is the kind of grandmother that people write about. She was the only woman in her school in India in the 1940s; in the photograph of her graduating class, she stands alone to the left of the headmaster while dozens of her male classmates stand to his right. She had an arranged marriage when she was 17 and fell in love with my grandfather and his family immediately. My grandparents had four daughters, and while the world saw misfortune -- no boys -- she raised four strong, feminist, well-educated women."

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