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How ‘Jeopardy!’ helped me mourn my grandparents

JL;DR SUMMARY Mira Fox reflects on how the television quiz show "Jeopardy!" became intertwined with her family's traditions, serving as a bonding activity across generations. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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PandemicGrandparentsMourningMemoryFamily TraditionsLegacyTelevisionJeopardy!Alex TrebekTrivia

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Denver, Colorado, United States
"Whenever I visited my grandparents in Denver, my grandfather would quiz me on the Pythagorean theorem and the movements of planets."

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