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When I was a kid, my grandma gave me brief snippets of what her life was like before I knew her.  I wish that I could still ask her to go into more depth.  I want to know what she would have thought of today's election.  I think she would be proud of all the women standing up.  My grandma was born in 1928, eight years of the passage of the 19th Amendment. She was a firecracker.  I think, in her own way, she was a feminist.  She may not have called herself one, though I really don't recall if she did or not, but her actions and words that I remember lead me to believe that she was a feminist. It's a shame that many of us don't think to ask the important questions until we're older and it's too late. My paternal grandmother passed when I was 19, thus, it's been over ten years.  Though she was aging, it was somewhat unexpected.  We always think we have time, and we really, truly don't. I was different than a lot of kids my age, around me at lea...