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People share unforgettable stories told by their grandparents, and some are just insane

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Reddit user LorieEve asked people to share stories from their own grandparents that they’d “never forget” Some answers are short and simple; others read like a sprawling novel.

"My grandpa worked in a steel mill in Ohio during the 50s and 60s and he was robbed at gunpoint in the basement of said mill when he looked him in the eyes and said nice gun, but mine's bigger’.

An enormous number of German-Americans lost or refused to pass on their heritage language during WWII .

“My grandfather was a kid during the Great Depression . He once told me they had raccoon one year for a special Christmas dinner.” Anxious_Cap51. “When my grandpa was 9 ish him and his friends were playing by the train tracks. After an hour the boy's mother asked them all where her son was where they just said oh he's off to Blackpool .’.

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informal

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English

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27

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medium-lived

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