to the living room and began to talk.  Nanny wants to race through the story, getting to the things that are most vivid in her memory, often the most horrific details.  I want to get into the nitty gritty of her family life pre-war and pre Russian occupation, but she wanted to get to the part where her family and friends were starting to disappear.  So I let her go there. I had to slow her down and try to make chronological sense of some of the details several times.  Luckily, I have several other sources of information about specific events that I will go to for accuracy, but I'm really interested in her perspective and her feelings. The best thing about these visits is that I get to reconnect with my grandmother one-on-one, with no little munchkins stealing the show.  She is very outspoken, perhaps that's where I get it from.  We both tend to be brutally honest at times.  I think she is quite pleased that she gets my undivided attention and can tell me what she thinks about everyone in my extended family.  She even did impressions of each of us. I was also given a lecture on trying harder to avoid butting heads with my mother. Overall, it was a great visit. Here are some of my Nanny's direct quotes: -On one of her forced labour bosses, "he had a face like a Pekinese dog and a nose like a big juicy strawberry". -On the Red