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BlueKota

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10. My maternal grandmother

Reply to Aristus (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 9, 2024, 10:36 PM

Oct 2024

had 8. They were a farm family too. She had 21 grandchildren. Two of the grandchildren passed. One died of leukemia when he was 3, the year before I was born. My cousin Bill died in 2006 of colon cancer he was only 40.

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