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Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: Grandpa's 100th birthday partyThis photograph, taken on 14 January 1984, shows my grandfather on his 100th birthday. The woman beside him is his daughter – my aunt Muriel, the youngest of five children and 11 years younger than my father, who was next in line. She is closer to me in age than she was to her eldest brother and sister.As a very young man, Grandpa, whose name was Yaacov Weinbaum, had travelled from his home in Poland to ...

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