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Today's (quite belated) #grandma recording mainly talked again about her aunt Sophie https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Steurenthaler-54, for whom grandma was working during her mandatory social year, when Sophie learned that her husband had died in #WorldWar2 in August 1944. It completely crushed her aunt: She cried for the whole winter. Grandma still got furious about her, when she told me about those days. Grandma got worried about getting married herself one day. She swore herself, that she won't react like this, should she ever be in Sophie's situation. On a previous recording, she had already told me, that grandma didn't, when her husband passed away as well. Even before the death of her husband, Sophie didn't have it easy. Their marriage apparently was annulled and they had to redo it two years later, because somebody had figured out about their blood-relationship. Before getting married with that husband, she was engaged to somebody, who lost his live a few days before the wedding. Another story from today's recording, another recurring one, was the one of grandma's spinning wheel, which somehow ended up in the home of her sister, even though that one "didn't know how to spin ... or to swim .. and a driver's license, she also never had." Since the next recording turned out to be only myself summarizing a phone call I had with her, this recording concludes January 2023. The last January of her life. 380 recordings done, 120 to go. #genealogy #wool #spinning