To all who are concerned:
Max's beloved grandmother died yesterday, and...
his wife's grandmother died the day before.
Sympathies to both, Dearest.

Hey Max, my deepest sympathies to you both for your losses. Kia kaha, old son.

You are a good friend to many of us here, Max, and your concerns are our concerns. My condolences to you.

Ah, Max, dear one, my deepest sympathy. I remember my Grandmother so well even tho she died when I was a youngster. She is a presence in my heart and life. Yours and your wife's grandmother, will stay with you both as sweet and comforting presences in your memories. Take heart.
Love is eternal.
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Dear Max: Grandmothers can be very special to their grandchildren. Quite possibly your grandmother helped make you the person we are all so fond of.

My sympathies also Max. My earliest memory (and my only memory of her) is of my paternal grandmother tucking me into bed one night. Her words, in a soft Clydeside accent, were, "Night, night, sleep tight, don't let the little bugs bite. If they bite squeeze them tight. They won't bite anither night."

May yours rest in peace.

Dear Max, I join your other AWAD friends in offering condolences. "Condoleces" seem to me to be , too often, trite and not communicative of the intended sentiment. I have hesitated, but nevertheless presumed, to offer the following excerpt from Barchester Towers which sentiment may seem , at first blush, heartless and uncaring, but one which, as Trollop states, is, in fact, expressive of God's mercy.

"How much kinder is God to us than we are willing to be to ourselves! ....'Let me ever remember my living friends, but forget them as soon as dead' was the prayer of a wise man who understood the mercy of God. Few perhaps will have the courage to express such a wish, and yet to do so would only be to ask for that release from sorrow which a kind Creator almost always extends to us."

We would NOT FORGET the persons who have gone, but would merely be recipients of the release from sorrow which God graciously grants. May God grant such tender mercy to you, my friend.

My thoughts are with you and your wife too, Max ~ I came along too late to know any of my grandparents, but I witness the bonds created between grandparents and their grandchildren elsewhere throughout my extended family. Their collective wisdom lives on in you...

I,too, add my condolences to you and your wife, Max. My own grandparents were gone long before I began to form memories, but when you get beyond the pain of your loss, I'm sure you'll have years of love to remember and sustain you.

My condolences to you and your wife, Max. Knowing you, I can only imagine your grandmother kind and gracious.