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Preface
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Barbara Graham |
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Introduction
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Mary Pipher |
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Part I
Now You See Me
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Your Sixty-Year-Old: Friend or Foe?
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Molly Giles |
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How I Got to Be Queen of England
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Elizabeth Berg |
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What Counts
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Beverly Lowry |
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Nana
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Roxana Robinson |
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Now You See Me, Now You Don't
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz |
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If You Knew Harry
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Susan Shreve |
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What I Want to Be When I Grow Up
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Virginia Ironside |
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Part II
Through the Woods
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Facebook Grandma
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Rona Maynard |
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Sitting Here in Limbo
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Jill Nelson |
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La-Z-Nana
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Abigail Thomas |
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Ten Straight Days
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Beverly Donofrio |
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Angel Baby
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Marita Golden |
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When Things Go Tilt
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Claire Roberts |
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The Road to Imperfection
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Judith Guest |
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The Age Thing
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Kate Lehrer |
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How Things Happen
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Sallie Tisdale |
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The Rivals
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Judith Viorst |
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Part III
What Counts
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Eye of My Heart
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Barbara Graham |
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Gained in Translation
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Bharati Mukherjee |
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Déjà Vu
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Marcie Fitzgerald |
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The Owie Tree
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Sandra Benitez |
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Grandmothers Should Be Seen and Not Heard
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Anne Roiphe |
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Making Memories
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin |
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On Becoming an Ancestor
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Ellen Gilchrist |
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Everything That Goes Up Must Come Down
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Susan Griffin |
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Highway Helen
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Lynn Lauber |
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About the Contributors
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Acknowledgments
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