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What Grandfather Taught Without Saying So
Kenji Watanabe ran a small dry-cleaning business in Sacramento from 1968 to 2004. His granddaughter Mira, now twenty-nine and a tax attorney in Oakland, says he taught her more about work than anyone she has had a job under since.
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The Grandmother Who Moved In
Vidya Iyer arrived in San Jose from Chennai on a humid Tuesday in September 2024 and has not been back. She is seventy-one. She lives in what was once her daughter's home office. She does not, on most days, regret the decision.
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Grandparents at a Distance: The Video Call as a Second Living Room
Eleanor Brennan is seventy-three and lives in Galway. Her grandson Theo is four and lives in Portland, Maine. They see each other, on a screen propped against a fruit bowl, every Tuesday and Saturday morning.