Among the many lessons I learned from my maternal grandmother, Mary L. Crane, was that it can be tough to hate up close.
Mary was an Irish-Catholic carpetbagger who moved her family south from upstate New York in 1949. Her father, a first-generation Irish American, had been a successful but modest neighborhood grocer. She lost her mother as a child, and her father, Tom Kenney, busy wi...
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