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“Yes”, he answered.

“And is this grandma?” Darby asked, adding “I was right. Wasn’t I?”

“Yes. That is your grandma.”

Grandpa Jack then pointed to a small dog in the corner of the picture. “This pup in the corner standing by your grandma is Mum. She was Duchess’s mother.”

It was like looking at history and realizing that this history was your own. In this case, it was also like our history played an important part in a bigger history. And we were somehow connected to this bigger history by knowing them and being their family.

I asked, “Grandpa, who is this man next to you and Grandma?”

Grandpa sighed and said, “That was my research partner, Dr. Allen Bayne.”

“Is he still alive?” Darby asked.

 “Yes. Yes, he is.”

“Are you still friends?” she asked.

“No. While we were once partners, this man, toward the end of this project would betray me. He would become the bane of my existence as it related to my work." 

I then asked, pointing to the first photo on the page, “So is this you, Grandma, and Bayne at school?”

“Yes. This is the three of us the day we were preparing to leave school to travel to Greece on the research grant we had received.”

“What is a research grant, anyway?” I had to ask.

“A grant is a research project that is funded by a sponsor. In our case, it was the anthropology department at Iowa University. The grant we received was awarded to us based on my hypothesis that the central region of Greece near Mount Olympus would be where we would find conclusive evidence in the fossils from the area that giant bones existed. The grant we received paid for our travel to Greece and enough money to hire a crew to help us navigate and excavate the site once we arrived. The term of the grant was for only six months, so time was short to find such ancient evidence.”

“So, you traveled to Greece to find these giant bones?” I asked.

 “That’s just what we set out to do,” Grandpa Jack proudly said.