Yay for European passports! :D Italian is a beautiful language - do you think that you'll start learning it, too?
Also, your great-grandmother sounds really awesome.
I have a few interesting relatives - a great-uncle of my father was in the First World War and lost a leg. Apparently someone threw a grenade into his trench and it was between him stomping on the grenade to absorb some of the explosion or them all dying.
Also, my dad's grandfather died (or dissappeared) mysteriously around the birth of my dad's dad, way back in the early 1900s. Dad's grandma didn't speak very good English (they were newly arrived from Poland) so they couldn't do much investigating. It's an unsolved mystery.
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Date: 2009-06-23 11:43 pm (UTC)Also, your great-grandmother sounds really awesome.
I have a few interesting relatives - a great-uncle of my father was in the First World War and lost a leg. Apparently someone threw a grenade into his trench and it was between him stomping on the grenade to absorb some of the explosion or them all dying.
Also, my dad's grandfather died (or dissappeared) mysteriously around the birth of my dad's dad, way back in the early 1900s. Dad's grandma didn't speak very good English (they were newly arrived from Poland) so they couldn't do much investigating. It's an unsolved mystery.