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A headline in last Tuesday’s Denver Post said, “Grandpa hurt as car hits his bedroom.” I also read last week that a grandmother in Michigan won a huge lottery jackpot. In the past, I’ve read many reports of grandmas and grandpas being victimized by scam artists, mugged in bus stations, and also (shamefully) cited for drunk and disorderly conduct in a public place.
The media seem fascinated by grandparents. Is the crime more heinous, more dastardly if it is perpetrated on or by a grandparent? Are grandparents more vulnerable than a similarly aged person who has no grandchildren? Are grandparents more sacrosanct than the rest of the population?
Letap hear it for all those other victims — the aunts, the cousins, the nephews and uncles. How about a headline lauding great aunts: “Great aunt saves puppy from flooded basement.” Or even “Drunken uncle arrested outside City Hall.”
Erin Frey, Brighton
This letter was published in the Oct. 12 edition.
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