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A Grandmother's Touch: Heart-Warming Stories of Love Across Generations

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I never had a living grandmother when I was a child so I was especially intrigued and inspired by these heart-warming stories. They made me newly aware of my role as a grandmother in the lives of my precious grandchildren.

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to rekindle warm memories of their grandmothers or be reminded of their importance to their grandchildren.

When I picked up this book and began reading I thought I would be most touched by stories grandchildren wrote about their grandmothers. Afterall, my own grandmothers have been such important people to me and appear in my earliest, most important memories. I discovered many stories by grandchildren that mirrored my own experience and made me smile, pause, and want to pick up the phone to say (again) "Thanks Gram - you're the best!" But the most powerful, touching and thought-provoking stories in this book were written by grandmothers themselves. I never thought about the role of grandmother from any perspective other than my own as "receiver/beneficiary". To read these womens' thoughts, dreams, disappointments and struggles made me see that being a grandparent is like being a good parent: it takes time, interest, energy, and courage. While I could not connect with each and every story in the book, I enjoyed reading each one and recommend it as a must read for the whole family.