old newspaper, my grandma, beauty queen
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Dhani says,
Hi Banjo! This reminded me of the time, as a child, when I would catch my late maternal grandmother, an immigrant form Italy, reading, or pretending to read, the English newspaper upside-down!When I politely pointed to an accompanying upside-down foto, she became annoyed & quickly set the paper straight & continued to 'read'. She was illiterate in both her native Italian & adopted English, yet she managed to put me through university....
BanjoDan says,
Very interesting amigo, thanks for sharing!