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BR, it'd be great to have met your granddad. He sounds like our Grinny (grandmother who smiled a lot!). She marched on Washington with Rev Dr King, and always said that she shared his dream. Still, we got her to stop driving in the nick of time.

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TPJ...What an inspiration! An activist 'Grinny'! Truly wonderful to have a person like that in your life. Wish I had known her. She must have been fascinating to talk with.

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Grinny was committed but genteel. Her daughter & my mom? Now there was a FEROCIOUS liberal Democrat!

Living in 1930s-40s NYC, Grinny attended numerous parties with scruffy, impassioned leftist fellow-travelers. She wasn't interested in ideology, and speculated that they came partly for free food & drinks. A bit of a snob, she also thought that they should bathe more often.

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