[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

On the other hand, you used to have women like my great-grandmother, who married at sixteen, worked her fingers to the bone as a poor farmer’s wife, bore eleven children and buried three of them in their childhood, raised my mother from infancy after my grandmother died in childbirth, struggled with cancer on and off for the last twenty years of her life and who, by all accounts, had the patience and love of a saint.

[Mark17]

She sounds like a gem.

[cgbg]

On the other hand, you used to have women like my great-grandmother, who married at sixteen, worked her fingers to the bone as a poor farmer’s wife, bore eleven children and buried three of them In their childhood, raised my mother from infancy after my grandmother died in childbirth, struggled with cancer on and off for the last twenty years of her life and who, by all accounts, had the patience and love of a saint.

Then you also had women like my grandmother, married young, never worked a day in her life because men always took care of her every need, never had any illness, smiled every day, and live to be 106. That was the grandma who politely explained to me "never believe what you see on television--there is no way we went to the moon". :-)