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yellowdogintexas

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2. My grandfather did that for me & one of my sisters.
Sun Jul 4, 2021, 05:14 PM
Jul 2021

$1 per A and 50 Cents per B starting in 3rd grade He died when our youngest sister was 4 so she did not get the benefit; she would have raked it in too.

My mom did not like it but he did it anyway ( besides she was never very good at telling her father No) He told her it was his way of letting us know how proud he was of his girls

I was just like you, and I made good grades for the same reasons. His gift was nice, and I appreciated it but it was my dad's relatives who put the pressure on. Little things like "no one in our family ever failed a class" "Your daddy and Aunt Ruby always had straight A report cards." implying that I did not meet their standards My mom hated that too but they never stopped.

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