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  • I especially love the first painting of the Four Generations as this month there will be 4 generations gathered together at my home: My first grand-daughter, my daughter (baby's momma), me (grandma) and my mother (great-grandma).

    Home Living 2009

  • Your hairstylist cannot change the fact that you inherited your great-grandma Gertrude's frizzy mane but he can find a way to help you manage what you have.

    Yves Durif: Our First Date Yves Durif 2012

  • She got to bring her four children to visit their great-grandma Donna.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2009

  • My great-grandma Blanche used to make them, but she was the last one in my family to prepare them on a regular basis.

    From hoecakes to hope | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

  • My great-grandma Blanche used to make them, but she was the last one in my family to prepare them on a regular basis.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Homesick Texan 2008

  • I saw a grandma or great-grandma reading something on an Apple Jacks box and the kids couldn't read a word. ...

    Brown keeps education oversight, hires Board of Education member Mike DeBonis 2010

  • Gosh, Mrs. Durash, do you remember that old washing machine that belonged to my great-grandma?

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

  • In Oxford, we were eating them for breakfast, smothered in sweet sorghum syrup, but my great-grandma used to serve them instead at lunch and dinner in place of cornbread.

    From hoecakes to hope | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

  • Your great-grandma sends Daddy enough money for him to stay alive.

    The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010

  • In Oxford, we were eating them for breakfast, smothered in sweet sorghum syrup, but my great-grandma used to serve them instead at lunch and dinner in place of cornbread.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Homesick Texan 2008

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