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My grandmother is a strong woman who has had quite an eventful life.
Part of her family came from Spain, so she was the only child in her class with brown eyes and dark hair, which earned her the name "the gipsy". She had five brothers and no sisters, so girly things never really interested her and she had no dreams of getting married and having kids.

But she met my grandfather, a woodworker who later turned to robbery, with whom she married and had two daughters. It was in a day and age when most men from the lower middle class beat their wives, and one day when they had a fight he punched her in the face. She balled her hand in a fist and punched him right back just as hard. He never tried to hit her again.

When he died she never even tried to find another man. "I don't mind my own company, and I've done my national service when it comes to men" as she says.

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~TheStitchinSprite Oct 20, 2012

Wow, your grandmother sounds like one hell of a lady. You're lucky to have someone like that in your life.

~FlyingxMintxKalee Sep 22, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Amazing!

your grandmother sounds like quite a person.

~BeastSpencerG Sep 16, 2012

That's what my Mum did!! But not as intense, I guess? When she was in college, she got into an argument with her boyfriend at the time. He got so frustration and angry that he took her little clutch wallet and smacked her in the face with it. She said it was like he patted her cheek with the wallet but she wouldn't allow it. She punched him right in the eye!! For three weeks, her football playing boyfriend walked around campus telling everyone he got a nasty black eye from walking into a door. He never acted like that towards my Mum again.
I was crying with laughter after she finished telling the story. She showed me a photo of them together and he was a buff guy who looked like he could do some serious damage in a fight. And my Mum had him telling people he walked into a door for three weeks!!! Hahahahaha

But your grandmother sounds like an amazing woman. Someone who would know exactly what to say when it needs to be said. Someone who has tons of stories that would be great listen.