When my mother and grandmother told the story of our births, it was mostly of how Caroline had refused to breathe.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

That night Sylvie's dreams were full of all the wonderful things she and her grandmother could buy for ten dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

She had a plan that would get the ten dollars for her grandmother and make the young man happy.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

And when he traveled to his grandmother's house, he sat in the back of the bus behind a white line.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

The child hurried the cow through the dark forest, following a narrow path that led to her grandmother's home.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

He never returned. But many nights Sylvie heard the sound of his whistle as she came home with her grandmother's cow.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

He would tell Lucille interesting stories about her ancestors, especially the one named Lucille who was his grandmother.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

her grandmother said proudly. "She knows the forest so well, the wild animals come and eat bread right out of her hands."

VOA: special.2010.04.03

When they reached her, the stranger put down his gun and explained his problem to Sylvie's smiling grandmother.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

She wrote "I Must Be Saved" to honor the folk singer Odetta whom Peyroux calls her spiritual grandmother.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

But the writer says it was his grandmother who really got him interested in this subject.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

Both her grandmother and the young man stood up as she came into the kitchen.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

She could see her grandmother standing near the door of the farm house.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

One day,Sylvie's grandmother had visited them and had chosen Sylvie from all her brothers and sisters to be the one to help her on her farm in Vermont.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

The recipe comes from Megan Walhood's grandmother.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

"When I was reared in the British West Indies my grandmother used to always tell me, you may not be loved by certain forces in a society and you have to understand why.

VOA: special.2011.03.20

Her mother was a teenage mother, as well as her grandmother, so you can see the cycle of teen pregnancy,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

The church pastor, Monsignor Etuale Lealofi, was visiting a family when they learned that their grandmother was a victim of the tsunami.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

When she showed the letter to her mother,my grandmother, looked at her and said, 'You're not going anywhere.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

That has set off intense speculation here about the identity of the intended victim with published reports mentioning high-profile Congress Party politician Rahul Gandhi, whose father and grandmother, both prime ministers, were assassinated.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Kubysheva,a normally patient grandmother, is part of a growing number of Russians in the countryside and the city, who increasingly blame part of the massive fire damage on government mismanagement and lack of investment.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10