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    Grand Love
    Grand Love
    Grand Love
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    Grand Love

    By Wilma Davidson

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    Some years ago a friend who had just become a grandparent told Wilma Davidson that every other love prepared you for the love a grandparent feels for a grandchild and this love is like no other. The moment Wilma held her granddaughter for the first time; she knew this to be true, that this was indeed Grand Love. This collection of poetry jo

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateJun 21, 2016
    ISBN9781760411640
    Grand Love
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    Wilma Davidson

    Wilma Davidson, Ed. D. is a writing and presentation-skills coach. Her clients include corporations throughout the Fortune 500. She is the author of Most Likely to Succeed at Work: How to Get Ahead at Work Using Everything You Learned in High School, Writing a Winning College Application Essay and Business Writing: What Works, What Won't. She lives in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and Longboat Key, Florida.

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      Grand Love - Wilma Davidson

      Grand Love

      Grand Love

      Wilma Davidson

      Ginninderra Press

      Contents

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Author’s Note

      Grand Love

      Grand Love

      ISBN 978 1 76041 164 0

      Copyright © Wilma Davidson 2009

      Cover: Jane Day

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      First published 2009

      Reprinted 2016

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      To all grandparents and grandchildren

      who inspired this collection,

      either wittingly or unwittingly

      For Delaney

      Author’s Note

      This collection is about love. Love, it is said, that is like no other. A feeling so strong that it squeezes away all competitors. A raw emotion I feel and see. The child need not be present or, if present, need not look or engage in any way. Each sound, feeble or shrill, causes a gasp and the embarrassed smile of one caught in the act of devotion.

      You surround yourself with images of this little creature. In every room

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