As she watches her granddaughters lose themselves in new books, Herna offers a silent prayer for Persy – a woman she had never heard of until that day, but whose life is now intertwined with her family's and so many others.
By Sept. 30 this year, when he received his most recent quarterly statement from Fidelity Investments, the portfolio of his 10-year-old granddaughter had lost 22percentt of its value, while one for his 12-year-old grandson had lost 12percentt.
Madame Armfeldt passes her time playing solitaire and schooling her granddaughter in the lost art of being kept, and Ms. Smith neatly captures the ruined grandeur of this devotee of the lucrative liaison.
Billie Lourd, daughter of Carrie Fisher and granddaughter of Debbie Reynolds, lost both of those family members this week.
I've lost my granddaughter.
My granddaughter in Midtown Manhattan just lost her second tooth.
"No one remembers him around here anymore," said Mehdi Mohammed, a neighbor who lost his granddaughter in the attack.
The retired four-star general Volney Warner, who helped integrate women into the Army division he commanded in the '70s and has since lost a granddaughter in Afghanistan, said recently that "women are better at giving life than taking it".
Her parents, George and Cindy, who lost a granddaughter and then listened in court as Mr. Baez blamed the family for Caylee's death, sat stone-faced after the verdict was read.
The desk was later given by Jefferson to a granddaughter to replace one lost in a shipwreck that was made by John Hemmings, Jefferson's enslaved cabinetmaker (who used that spelling of his name), part of the now-renowned Hemings family, one of whom, Sally, is thought by many historians to have had a special relationship with Jefferson and borne him children.
Speaking through sobs to the media outside court before the findings were handed down, Dhu's grandmother Carol Roe said it felt as though she had lost her granddaughter again, as it did every time the family attended the coroner's court.
