One afternoon, a granddaughter was sitting beside her grandmother, looking through an old photo album.<\/p>\n
She noticed a photograph of Grandma as a young woman.<\/p>\n
She looked glamorous.<\/p>\n
Elegant dress.<\/p>\n
Perfect hair.<\/p>\n
A smile that suggested she knew exactly how charming she was.<\/p>\n
The granddaughter laughed.<\/p>\n
“Grandma, how many boyfriends did you have when you were young?”<\/p>\n
Grandma smiled proudly.<\/p>\n
“Oh, darling, in my time, relationships were pure, respectful, and meaningful.”<\/p>\n
The granddaughter nodded.<\/p>\n
“Wow…”<\/p>\n
Then she asked:<\/p>\n
“So… just one?”<\/p>\n
Grandma paused.<\/p>\n
“Well…”<\/p>\n
The granddaughter leaned closer.<\/p>\n
“How many?”<\/p>\n
Grandma started counting on her fingers.<\/p>\n
“One for dancing.”<\/p>\n
The granddaughter blinked.<\/p>\n
“Okay…”<\/p>\n
“One for poetry.”<\/p>\n
Another finger.<\/p>\n
“One for motorcycle rides.”<\/p>\n
Another.<\/p>\n
“One who played guitar.”<\/p>\n
Another.<\/p>\n
“And one rich boy who always took me to fancy restaurants.”<\/p>\n
The granddaughter’s eyes widened.<\/p>\n
“GRANDMA!”<\/p>\n
Grandma laughed.<\/p>\n
“What?”<\/p>\n
“You just listed five!”<\/p>\n
Grandma shrugged.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t call them ‘boyfriends’ back then.”<\/p>\n
The granddaughter became even more curious.<\/p>\n
“Then what did you call them?”<\/p>\n
Grandma leaned closer.<\/p>\n
She lowered her voice dramatically.<\/p>\n
Then whispered:<\/p>\n
“Options.”<\/strong><\/p>\n The granddaughter stared at her.<\/p>\n Grandma smiled.<\/p>\n “Darling, your grandfather wasn’t the lucky one.”<\/p>\n “He was simply the one who survived the auditions.”<\/p>\n The granddaughter burst out laughing.<\/p>\n Grandma picked up her tea.<\/p>\n “Now stop asking questions.”<\/p>\n “Why?”<\/p>\n “Because I haven’t even told you about the one who had a convertible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One afternoon, a granddaughter was sitting beside her grandmother, looking through an old photo album. She noticed a photograph of Grandma as a young woman. She looked glamorous. Elegant dress. … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-best-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstory9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstory9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstory9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstory9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstory9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstory9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61894,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstory9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61803\/revisions\/61894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstory9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstory9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstory9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstory9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}