Abuelo

A turning point came when he told his 86-year-old abuelo in 2010. “We were terrified to tell him,” Mr. Heng-Lehtinen said.

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Young people who are close to writing off the Democratic Party as a dinosaur, as a gerontocracy of prudish abuelos who gave birth by immaculate conception, may be in for a pleasant surprise.

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I visited several neighborhood parks that had extensive feeder operations, trail systems etc, and there were always family groups, often with very young kids as well as abuelas and abuelos, teenage boys and girls birding or hiking- it was really eye-opening to see a people immersed in the natural world around them.

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