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Apo kapoios pou tora leo tin ellada einai “spiti” ego pou eimai edo yia 15 xronia tora se katalaveno poly oti to poio megalo mathima otan menoume stis xores pou den einai ‘patrida’ einai oti einai entelos ormofoi oi anthropoi pantu!

Guest post 2 – growing up in Canada « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009

Sinxaretiria yia ti zoi sou kai tin prospatheia sou.

Guest post 2 – growing up in Canada « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009

Congrats on the car purchase! me yia as they say in Greece when you make a big purchase, which means "enjoy with health".

we buy a car 2005

Then, through her ill-fitting dentures, she said, “Go for yia yia, dolly mou.”

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

Throughout my childhood the slightest mention of the Depression would set my yia yia off into a full cycle of wailing and breast-clutching.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

At fourteen weeks her face begins to grow plump, so that for the first time I can recognize the yia yia of my childhood.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

I want you go put sign it says, this place is for yia yia.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

As we were passing the old Medusa Cement factory, I heard a long hiss and thought that my yia yia, sitting next to me, was sighing over her misfortunes.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

So my yia yia, suffering the first of her imaginary diseases, stood looking down at Bursa, as though she might spot a visible confirmation of her invisible dread.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

Nevertheless: black people were still new to my yia yia.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002