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The Ties That Bind

If I look back in my journal and search for the word “grandma,” there’s only one person who appears. She’s neither of my biological grandmothers, who had both passed on by the time I was ten, but my husband’s grandmother—Janice. She first showed up in my life when I was seventeen. I was stricken with fear to meet Tommy’s “Houston grandparents,” this rags-to-riches, powerhouse couple who’d traveled the world, mastered the stock market, and given my then-boyfriend some of his...