Grandparents

June 7, 2023
Published by Jennifer Harlan at June 7, 2023
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Traveling the World With Your Best Friend at Any Age

“It’s Never Too Late” is a series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms. When Eleanor Hamby […]
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October 21, 2022
Published by Kevin Hershey at October 21, 2022
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Young, Gay and Single Among the Nuns and Widows

After graduating from college, I pictured myself scrolling through Grindr, not living with my grandmother. When I graduated from college in Portland, Ore., eight years ago, […]
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June 24, 2022
Published by Ariel Kanter at June 24, 2022
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What They Wanted

My grandparents died as they lived: on their own terms and holding hands. There was nothing traditional about my grandparents, other than, perhaps, my grandmother’s rabid […]
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December 14, 2021
Published by Grandfather_Clocks at December 14, 2021
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Child I’ll Never Meet’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Poem in My Pocket Walking home, I stopped before a poet for […]
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June 1, 2021
Published by Hahna Yoon at June 1, 2021
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In Korea, You Don’t Have to Explain TikTok to Your Grandma

Through videos on YouTube and TikTok that feature their lives, fashions and routines, many Koreans are challenging the idea that such media are a young person’s […]
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May 12, 2021
Published by Grandfather_Clocks at May 12, 2021
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Modern Love Podcast: ‘Why Do People Get Married?’

Listen to our season premiere:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher ‘The idea of marriage was embarrassing. But it wasn’t that I wanted to be single and […]
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November 20, 2020
Published by Rachael Cusick at November 20, 2020
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Modern Love: She Stood in for My Mother. Could I Do the Same for Her?

I used to hate going clothes shopping with my grandmother. We would go to a store, pick out an array of jean skirts and sports bras, […]
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July 24, 2020
Published by Chris Horton at July 24, 2020
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He’s 83, She’s 84, and They Model Other People’s Forgotten Laundry

TAICHUNG, Taiwan — At Wansho Laundry in central Taiwan, most dirty clothes dropped off to be steamed or washed or dry-cleaned end up right back in […]
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January 3, 2020
Published by Jake Maynard at January 3, 2020
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Trying to Keep Up With Grandma’s Love Life

Three years ago, my mother sent me a text that read, “Gramma Gert: 3, Jake: 0” — the joke being that her 80-year-old mother, Gert, was […]
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October 14, 2019
Published by Kim Severson at October 14, 2019
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Hey, Look! Nonna and Her Pasta Are on YouTube

Vicky Bennison, a 60-year-old British woman with a background in international development, never intended Pasta Grannies to become a minor YouTube hit or to make stars […]
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