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  • We never got to know Catya An Internet Movie Database profile of her says she was a successful model, worked as an actress, was married twice and had three children, effectively making Vidal Sassoon a grand-father, something that is also never brought up in the film or what type of her relationship she had with Sassoon.

    Zorianna Kit: Movie Review: "Vidal Sassoon The Movie" Zorianna Kit 2011

  • His grand-father who cooked for the Brits and his father were Africans.

    Global Voices in English » Cameroon: Bloggers Discuss Obama’s Ghana Speech 2009

  • Now that there was no immediate danger, Long-Lip waited for his grand-father, Marrow-Bone; and with the gap of a generation between them, the old fellow and the youth brought up our rear.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • We never got to know Catya An Internet Movie Database profile of her says she was a successful model, worked as an actress, was married twice and had three children, effectively making Vidal Sassoon a grand-father, something that is also never brought up in the film or what type of her relationship she had with Sassoon.

    Zorianna Kit: Movie Review: "Vidal Sassoon The Movie" Zorianna Kit 2011

  • A few months later one of the children told me they'd bought copies for each of the grandchildren too, because by reading the book they'd have a way to know their grand-father.

    A Conversation Carolyn Jourdan, author of Heart in the Right Place 2010

  • My great grand-father was a bigamist and did time for it.

    Archive 2010-02-01 TK 2010

  • My great grand-father was a bigamist and did time for it.

    Nostra Culpa TK 2010

  • It started with my Polish great grand-father who sailed across the ocean to strike up a new life in America, leaving behind his wife of 24 years; then came my grandfather, who fell in love with the cuts of brisket and onion sauce and the wife of the butcher who cut them; my father left my mother three months before I was born.

    Kinesiology billy robinson 2010

  • Did your great grand-father put a gun to her head?

    The Better Part 2008

  • Jan Rubes, best known for his role of the grand-father in the movie "Witness" has passed away.

    Archive 2009-07-05 Toby O'B 2009

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