Personal Narrative Essay: The Grandpa Game

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The Grandpa Game My siblings and I had Grandpa to measure the waist of the 20th century and make sense of it all. Our family World Book (expert on dinosaurs, skyscrapers, and planets) implied Grandpa should be dead. Average human life expectancy at birth is 68.5 years. Grandpa, born in Lithuania in 1902, should have keeled over around the time man walked on the moon. We had a favourite game: How Old Was Grandpa When? “How old was Grandpa when I started high school?” asked my sister. He was 98. My brother: “How old was Grandpa when Communist Russia fell?” 89 years old. I said “How old was Grandpa when I was born?” 78. It was incredible. It was ludicrous. In the ‘Summer of Love,’ Grandpa was a senior citizen. He witnessed all

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