This information was unsettling, in a way, most of all because I hadn’t known anything about it and would never have guessed. Were there more such pockets of drama in the lives of my closest family? But the information in itself, what it said about Grandpa, I couldn’t get to tally because if there was one characteristic I associated with Grandpa it was his joie de vivre. Then again I had never thought of him as an independent person with an independent life, he had always been simply “Grandpa,” in the same way that Grandma had always been “Grandma.” A whoosh went through the old birch again,
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