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grandfather

noun as in grandsire

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At the age of five, my grandfather arrived at Ellis Island on Nov. 24, 1949, Thanksgiving Day.

But my direct experiences with caregiving — first for my grandfather with dementia, then for my wife through cancer — taught me how broken our society’s care infrastructure is.

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The court heard these included a man claiming he wanted photos for a "sentimental montage" for his grandfather, and a woman saying she was buying a nearby property and needed a drainage survey.

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Driscoll has previously highlighted that his father and grandfather served in the military before him, and he often speaks about his vision of transforming the Army.

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King said he grew up with a family story that his father's biological father - King's apparent paternal grandfather - was a man named Elvin Hunt, who was part Cherokee.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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