Did you know Grandfather would give the poems to me?” I ask.“We thought he might,” my mother says.”Why didn’t you stop him?”“We didn’t want to take away your choices,” my mother says.”But Grandfather never did tell me about the Rising,” I say.”I think he wanted you to find your own way,” my mother says. She smiles. “In that way, he was a true rebel. I think that’s why he chose that argument with your father as his favorite memory. Though he was upset when the fight happened, later he came to see that your father was strong in choosing his own path, and he admired him for it.

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