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Nancy Roman

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The Horrible, Though Imaginary, Family Secret

My maternal grandparents came to the US from Poland before World War I. They came separately – they didn’t meet until they were here for several years. As a matter of fact, my grandfather met and married someone else first, a young woman who died in the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918. I don’t know …

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Sixty Is The New Thirty-Seven

This is my Great-Grandma’s (Meme’s) family.  The photo was taken on Meme’s 80th birthday in 1951, the year I was born.  There’s a photo somewhere of her in that same chair with me in her arms.  But it’s this photo that fascinates me. Standing around Meme are her children.  That’s my Grandma on the far …

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