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smallhobbit) wrote2021-08-15 04:01 pm
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The Friday Five: A Family Set
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1. Did you grow up with your parents together as a unit?
Yes, and they celebrated their golden wedding before my father died.
2. Did you reach adulthood with four living grandparents?
Not quite, my maternal grandfather died when I was 17. My paternal grandfather died the following year, but I didn't go to his funeral as I had just started at university. Then my maternal grandmother died in the year between SM and I getting engaged and getting married, which was sad because we'd hoped she would make it to the wedding. My last grandmother died some years later. I missed her funeral too as our son, then a toddler, had chickenpox.
3. Is your extended family a close one or not?
No.
4. Does your family have a 'black sheep'?
Not that I know of, although there have been some in the past I believe. I do have a cousin in Ireland who has sheep, but I think they're white.
5. What is your first memory of a family member that is not your mother(s) or father(s)?
I remember visiting my grandparents who lived within walking distance of us when I was small.
thefridayfive 1. Did you grow up with your parents together as a unit?
Yes, and they celebrated their golden wedding before my father died.
2. Did you reach adulthood with four living grandparents?
Not quite, my maternal grandfather died when I was 17. My paternal grandfather died the following year, but I didn't go to his funeral as I had just started at university. Then my maternal grandmother died in the year between SM and I getting engaged and getting married, which was sad because we'd hoped she would make it to the wedding. My last grandmother died some years later. I missed her funeral too as our son, then a toddler, had chickenpox.
3. Is your extended family a close one or not?
No.
4. Does your family have a 'black sheep'?
Not that I know of, although there have been some in the past I believe. I do have a cousin in Ireland who has sheep, but I think they're white.
5. What is your first memory of a family member that is not your mother(s) or father(s)?
I remember visiting my grandparents who lived within walking distance of us when I was small.
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