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Grandmother: The Story of a Life That Never Was Lived

Chapter 1: GRANDMOTHER
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A young, delicate woman comes to live in a small village with an aging relative and meets a resentful housemate who mockingly dubs her grandmother. Over a series of intimate domestic episodes she becomes a gentle companion and caregiver to children and the elder, soothing, singing, and sharing ordinary household life. The narrative follows subtle changes in her appearance and spirit — lines forming in her face, hair whitening — and traces a gradual inner maturation and acceptance. Told episodically, the work examines everyday tenderness, the quiet duties and rewards of belonging, and the search for peace within small‑community relations.

GRANDMOTHER

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“GRANDMOTHER KNELT DOWN BESIDE HIM, AND TOOK HIS HAND.”

(See page 62)

Copyright, 1907
By Dana Estes & Company


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GRANDMOTHER

COLONIAL PRESS
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, U. S. A.

TO
MY DAUGHTER
Elizabeth


I heard an angel singing
When the day was springing,

“Mercy, pity and peace

Are the world’s release!”

William Blake.