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My mother, who turned 103 on 04/21/08, has a letter written by her mother to her farther in about 1920.
It is written in a "HIgh German", a language fromat used in the 1800s but is now totally obsolete.
Although my mother was fluent in modern spoken German, she could not read this letter.
About 5 years ago, found a woman whose 80+ mother still lived in Germany and came to SoCal for the summers, and as a bonus, understood the old "High German".
She translated the letter for me.
As I read the translation, I was blown away.
It was as if I was reading a letter written by my mother, rather than my grandmother.
As they say, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.
My grand parents died several years before I was born, but somehow that letter opened on window on my grandmother for me.
Lew