Not So Different After All

It's easy to think we're fundamentally different from our families. Listen to their stories, and you may find out you aren't that different at all.

Updated on January 10, 2024.

For as long as I've been alive, my maternal grandparents have lived in the apartment just below my parents. Until I left Bayonne at 22, Nono and Nona were everpresent. My car keys hung in their kitchen, and I rarely got out the door without Nono asking where I was going. If I got in late after hanging with Mickey or Jeremy, I…