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A Grandmother's Transparency

Commentator Julie Jamison reflects on how her grandmother started speaking her mind as she grew older, becoming less concerned with decorum. She once confessed with no shame to having had an abortion. And she continues to say surprising things to this day, even as she's dying.

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