Mean-spirited across Generations

I loved my Grandmother (my mother’s mother) but I was never disalusioned about her. She was a mean-spirited woman. She could do many good things and many kind things but there was always an underlying sense to those who really knew her that 1) she needed to bask in the limelight for her contributions and accomplishments and 2) she never past up any opportunity to create trouble for people she decided she did not like or she had decided to twist a little bit.

Those are facts and anyone who knew her will agree that that was a true representation of her. For all of the good, she was a truly mean-spirited person, one of the few I had ever encountered. Thank God.

My mother was an only child and did NOT inherit those negative traits. And, if you had asked me in the past I would have said neither did any of her grandchildren. But as time goes on it is becoming obvious that I was wrong. It should not have been a surprise. As I said, if you had asked me if any of my siblings was mean-spirited I would have said none. However, if you would have asked me to identify which one of my siblings was mean-spirited, I would not have hesitated to identify her. Hopefully, it will skip at least one generation with her descendants as well; if not die out totally.

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