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Pulitzer & Nat'l Book Award finalist, winner of ALA Carnegie Medal for THE GREAT BELIEVERS. Artistic Director at @storystudio. She/her. Daughter of a refugee.

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    Rebecca Makkai‏Verified account @rebeccamakkai Jul 31

    Please tell me one fascinating thing about one of your grandparents.

    4:47 PM - 31 Jul 2021
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      2. Rebecca Makkai‏Verified account @rebeccamakkai Aug 1

        I might spend the next five years just reading these replies.

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      3. Rebecca Makkai‏Verified account @rebeccamakkai Aug 1

        Also, I should play too. One gfther was a Hungarian MP who wound up in Gestapo prison. As Budapest was being bombed, he learned yoga from his cellmate, a shot-down RAF pilot who'd grown up in India during the Raj. My gf wound up in Hawaii, selling real estate and teaching yoga.

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      4. Rebecca Makkai‏Verified account @rebeccamakkai Aug 1

        Every time I take a yoga class and the instructor apologizes for some kind of minor background noise I'm like, But this is a lot chiller than the Siege of Budapest.

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      1. Dr. Andrea Avery‏ @and_read Jul 31
        Replying to @rebeccamakkai

        Here’s my (not Scandinavian) grandmother on accordion in the Jolly Scandinavians; also her Melody Kings poster. Anyone: “How you doin’, Florence?” My grandma: “Everyone I can and the dumb ones twice.”pic.twitter.com/Sdp03n1cAt

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      1. Molly Spencer‏ @mspencerpoet Jul 31
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        My grandpa landed on D-Day w/ the 82nd Airborne, a glider division. There was a higher-up officer w/ them, & an extra metal plate had been installed to protect the officer. They crashed of course! & some of his comrades died. My G & the rest went on to liberate St. Marie Eglise.

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      1. Eric Scot Tryon‏ @EricScotTryon Jul 31
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        My grandpa, while in his 70’s, was a zombie in Return of the Living Dead Part II. He won the gig through a silent auction school fundraiser. He was so good that in 2 scenes they moved him to the front to be in clear view.pic.twitter.com/cIPnkqDRdU

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      1. Travis Mulhauser‏ @portislives Jul 31
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        My GF was taken from a small Polish village as a teenager. RUS troops burned the family house down, and shipped him to a labor camp in Siberia. He survived over 2 yrs in captivity. Eventually immigrated to Detroit, where he opened a radio repair shop on 6 Mile. He retired there.

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      1. Rebecca Gummere‏ @rgummere Jul 31
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        My grandfather’s picture was the label for a brand of cigars named after him, in Louisville , KY, “Little Charlie’s.”pic.twitter.com/j3PaMC96GP

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      1. OK Kay?‏ @kaypros Jul 31
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        My grandfather was a British Home child. Sent from Wales at 8 to work farms etc in Canada. Child slaverypic.twitter.com/LNsp3Yy80U

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      1. Richard Cox, Author‏ @coxric Jul 31
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        My grandmother grew up in the sticks and didn’t have running water till my mom was 18. When I was 18, I told her I wanted to be a writer and showed her a Writer’s Digest. She proceeded to show me her WD mags from 1968. She had dreamed of being a published poet. I was floored.pic.twitter.com/vcYRGYxFGq

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