Apr. 9th, 2017 12:36 am
my great uncle’s granddaughter (from her
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my great uncle’s granddaughter (from her father’s first marriage) (I’m phrasing this like this because I don’t know how all that first cousin twice remove shit works) is having her twelfth birthday next week and her grandfather has given, I suppose to everyone invited to the party, what is essentially a social-emotional homework assignment: to give her a book that the giver enjoyed as a child, inscribed with a few lines about why the giver enjoyed the book. while my grandmother was describing this to me, it didn’t seem that weird, but writing it down it is VERY specific and VERY strange.

my great uncle’s granddaughter (from her father’s first marriage) (I’m phrasing this like this because I don’t know how all that first cousin twice remove shit works) is having her twelfth birthday next week and her grandfather has given, I suppose to everyone invited to the party, what is essentially a social-emotional homework assignment: to give her a book that the giver enjoyed as a child, inscribed with a few lines about why the giver enjoyed the book. while my grandmother was describing this to me, it didn’t seem that weird, but writing it down it is VERY specific and VERY strange.
