The Very Late Grandson

 

Regarding our sometimes tenuous connections to the past, of which I have mentioned that of Mr. Volkov (and soon, if I have not already, that or doctorally advised Henry Kissinger) and both gasped and reproduced gasps at the embellishment of Ms. Clary, later Queen Desideria of the reborn Swedish stormakt of Sweden-Norway and inauguratrix of the Bernadotte dynasty, the perhaps strangest is that of grand- and great-grandsons. I can say I knew my great-grandfather, though not much, and I would not posit to have had a conversation with him. But drawn out, the bonds uniting familys up and down, may over personal relationships