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An Ode to Nana

[if IE]> <![endif]An Ode to an Inspirational Grandmother StartFragment In "Because You're the First" my character Kassandra has an amazing relationship with her grandmother. I readily admit the inspiration for the character was my maternal grandmother, Tess Edgerton. Nana was a first generation American. Her mother and father came to the U.S. from Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) in 1906; my great-grandmother newly married and pregnant with my grandmother. The young family settled in Mansfield, Connecticut. Nana's childhood was atypical of those living in rural New England at the turn of the century. She turned out to be the oldest of the 13 children my great-grandparents had. They were