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I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska.

He wants to see the old place his grandparents lived in.

She got up a lunch which comprised a leg of mutton, tripe, sausages, a chicken fricassee, sweet cider, a fruit tart and some preserved prunes; then to all this the good woman added polite remarks about Madame, who appeared to be in better health, Mademoiselle, who had grown to be "superb," and Paul, who had become singularly sturdy; she spoke also of their deceased grandparents, whom the Liebards had known, for they had been in the service of the family for several generations.

She began by repulsing the proffered acquaintance of many families of great wealth and fashion, who either did not know their grandparents or were ashamed of them.

He looked round at all the faces looking mildly up at him, although some of them were the faces of men and women old enough to be his grandparents, and gave out his text with weighty significance.

The face was turned half-round, and the effect was that of one of those black silhouettes which our grandparents loved to frame.

Age and lifecourse stage in grandparent kinship care research

"Most of us will be a grandparent for a third of our lifespan, and as dual-worker households are increasing, we've become progressively dependent on our grandparents.

If your children have so much fun with their grandparents that they never want to leave them, say 'thank you.'

The Hillfield Farm on Cranbrook Way, part of the Farmhouse Inns collection of carveries, is celebrating National Grandparents Day (Sunday, October 7) by calling for grandparents who deserve a treat worth PS1,000.