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Nana, Mimi, or Grandma, The Evolution of Grandparent Names.

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What would you want to be called if you became a grandparent? Today find out why this topic is trending in American culture and how to be ready to participate in this kind of conversation

in English.

Hey Lindsay, how are you?

Hey Michelle, I'm excited to get into a conversation about grandparents because they are so important to our lives, right?

Yes, absolutely.

Lindsay, were you close to your grandparents growing up?

You know what?

The crazy thing is, I never knew either of my grandfather's

and this is going to make me sound old.

I'm not that old, but listen this my grandfather on my mom's side fought in

World War I your grandfather on your mom's side on my mom's so my mom's dad he was born in

1899. Oh wow. He died when she was 10 and he died in the in the like late let's see she was born in

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