Do You Ever Wish You'd Asked?
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (189792)
Boise, Idaho
August 29, 2025 1:38pm CST
I had a good relationship with my mother, grandmother, etc. both paternal and maternal though I was closer to my maternal side. I remember conversations and stories they told me. But now, looking back, sometimes I wish I would have asked about different times in their lives and different situations they went through. When I was young, I didn't think about those and now I am. I miss the times that I had with them and their influence in my life. I guess it is natural to wish you could have just one more conversation, or one more interaction. Do you ever think this way? Parents and grandparents are so special, and I have lost them all. I do have some wonderful memories though and am happy about that.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
29 Aug
I wish very much to have more conversations with them. I have lost all of mine too.
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Aug
There are times that I really miss my grandmother. She was like a mom to me growing up. Mom worked so much. I loved living there and have so many fond memories of my childhood. I hope you do as well.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
29 Aug
@celticeagle I was very close with my maternal grandma. We lost her in 1982. It seems like eternity.
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
30 Aug
@Tampa_girl7 ........I lost mine in 1988.
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@sallypup (69157)
• Centralia, Washington
29 Aug
Yes. My Dad acted and looked like a cowboy. He said he was a farmboy and his Dad raised Percheron draft horses for their farm in Ilinois. I wish I knew more of Dad's journey out West- did he really break broncs in Montana and was he a cook and a logger?? I also have huge chunks of missing story from the lady I was named after. And on I go.....
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
30 Aug
Your dad sounds like quite the adventurer. I bet that lady you were named after had an interesting life.
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@sallypup (69157)
• Centralia, Washington
30 Aug
@celticeagle I will always feel a jolt of pain with the woman. It's like being adopted and finding your brith family but the birth family wants nothing to do with you.
@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
29 Aug
Often wish I could see and hug them all again
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@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
29 Aug
I have heard quite a lot of stories from my family, I guess the one thing I am most grateful for that the sixth sense my family had with contact to the world beyond passed on to me, It is of a comfort to me,
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
30 Aug
My grandmother had that, and though I don't have my grandson seems to.
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@LindaOHio (222280)
• United States
30 Aug
Yes. Even though my father disowned me, I never asked about how he and my mother met or what their wedding was like or what it was like to live in Italy.
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@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
30 Aug
That would have been interesting for sure.
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