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Originally Posted by warrrreagl
I don't think anybody will get offended....unless you had mentioned Cherokee parenting skills or their children. THEN you would have had a nuclear war on your hands.
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Uh oh...My great-grandmother was full blooded Cherokee. She was also batshit crazy and "raised" several batshit crazy kids, including my maternal grandmother. She's still alive (the grandmother, not the batshit crazy Cherokee) and still crazy after all these years.
My maternal grandfather once told me he married because she was pretty and had, what he thought was anyway, a bit of a wild streak running through her. He didn't put it all together until much, much later. He had a brief stint in WWII, I believe and he helped build the big Alaskan pipeline up north, so, he wasn't home a whole lot. It got worse after he divorced 'Crazypants.' With nothing to tie him down, he criss-crossed America with his sons, now grown, working odd jobs, mostly in construction. The only clear memories I have of the man in his youth are associated with Cardinal baseball, which he loved to listen to. He's passed on, but I still love to listen.
There isn't much to say about my paternal grandparents. My paternal grandfather isn't my biological grandfather. He's outlived my paternal grandmother, who died some seven years ago. They're countryfolks; Got married young, found religion, opened a fairly fundamentalist Christian church out in the sticks, and built themselves up a congregation. He still speaks there occasionally from what I hear.