Years after this, a blond granddaughter acquires a coffee-colored sister, from Colombia.
She first created versions five years ago for a friend of her granddaughter who was designing a coffee shop.
"This is the cheapest place to sit down and watch the city go by," said Jesús Uzcátegui, 51, a former shoe factory worker, now unemployed, as he sipped a guayoyo, a watered-down coffee, with his granddaughter, Leinar Tovar, 8, who was smiling as she drank a guava juice.
In one scene, she causes a stir for talking loudly about her granddaughter's impending abortion in a coffee shop.
So the other day with my tall coffee in hand, my granddaughter excitedly showed me her report card.
At Duffy's yesterday, the owner, Maryanne Rauert, seeking to show that Broad Channel respects all ethnicities, pulled out snapshots of her granddaughter, a teenage girl with a coffee-colored complexion.
As you're offered a quick cup of coffee, your 12-year-old granddaughter walks in wearing ripped up jeans and a black and red zebra tube top (the tops with no straps) that's only a few inches long.
At his home in Canada last year, his toddler granddaughter fell and hit her head on a coffee table.
In the tiny home she shares with Jesse's stepfather, Eugene Ronneburg, a long-haul trucker, Mrs. Ronneburg slowly spreads on the coffee table recent photos of Joanna, the granddaughter she has never met.
"Why am I giving to a colleague and not to the Starbucks guy who at least remembers what kind of coffee I like?" Anna Post, Emily Post's great-great-granddaughter and the co-author of the just-published 18th edition of "Emily Post's Etiquette" (HarperCollins), said a person in this situation was out of luck.
Whatever the flavor, for the best coffee, "you need the freshest beans possible," said Diane Bokron, granddaughter of the company's founder and one of its current owners.
