My grandmother, choosing to follow in her father's footsteps, became an Eastern classical musician and a stage performer.

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So after a few months, my mother's people sent me and my brother back to this little village in Arkansas to my grandmother, my father's mother who was raising me, and she used to braid my hair.

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Recently Oliver's mother, father and grandmother have joined him and his wife Jules in the advertisements.

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The US president's father was born in Kenya and his step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, still lives in the village of Kogelo.

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Mr Clarke said his daughter could sign and lip read in Welsh and English, but he and his wife wanted her educated in Welsh and at Penrhyncoch where Mrs Clarke, her grandmother, father and brother all went to school.

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Zein El Abdeen, a 37-year-old Cairo taxi driver, lives with his wife, their 9-month-old daughter, his parents, grandmother and his two sisters in an 85-square-meter home where his father squatted for 40 years.

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Zein El Abdeen, a 37-year-old Cairo taxi driver, lives with his wife and 9-month-old daughter, his parents, grandmother and his two sisters in a 900-square-foot home where his father has squatted for 40 years.

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He was always convinced his parents and grandmother died in Auschwitz in 1944, and last week received a picture featuring the suitcase his father carried into the camp at the Nazi concentration camp, confirming this.

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Party officials are hoping that the 42-year-old Mr. Gandhi, whose father, grandmother and great-grandfather were all Indian prime ministers, will help it to stay in power.

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