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Up next, a story from Dennis Peterson, an author from South Carolina.

Today, Dennis shares with us the story of his maternal grandmother, or nanny, as he and his family called her.

Here's Dennis with the story.

Hands can reveal a lot about a person.

For example, a city slicker, a paper pusher, or someone who sits in front of a computer all day, will generally have soft, smooth hands.

Someone who does regular, hard, manual labor outdoors in all kinds of weather, however, generally has hard, rough, calloused hands.

The former will have clean, clear, neatly trimmed nails.

The latter has thick, broken nails, with some degree of dirt showing under them.

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes' character certainly would notice such things.

I too noticed them when I was growing up.

I noticed especially my maternal grandmother's hands. Nanny, we grandkids, called her.

Perhaps the most prominent feature of Nanny's hands was that they showed unmistakable evidence of arthritis.

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