Amazin Proposal: Grandparents

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Taking part in this amazin proposal makes me thinking about how important is to get a cler message in our brain. Even it may seem obvious, familiues storys help a lot in order to be concious about our nature, psicologically and phisically speaking. There is no doutb that our past ease ourselves to understant what will be coming and it prepares to encourage the future with more means.

My great-grandchildren should know everything they can understand. More or less, everybody has taken arduous deicisons in ther life and as a result, difficult to understant at first glance. Just at certain age, when you are really prepared, they can elaborate the past and the way grandparents acted. In this sense, from the very first day I knew I was going to

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