Spring Lament
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She calls me Nana (as in nah-nah). From the outset I called her Little Darling. It just felt right, much more so than Nana. But she was my first granddaughter and I couldn’t wait for her to call me anything, so I chose an easy name and gave her the simplest way possible to pronounce it. Later I would talk to other grandmothers with cool names like Gigi (as in gee-gee) and Marbie (some sort of real name-pet name combo) and I knew I had made a strategic error. Theirs were so sw
