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peppertree

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12. You're very welcome, CT Yankee. My Italian great-grandmother loved ABBA - can you believe it?

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #9)

Wed Oct 22, 2025, 04:57 PM

Oct 22

It was, I believe, the last musical group that caught her fancy before she passed on in 1981, at 92.

I was only 5 when she passed on - but she was a saint (unlike my dear grandmother, sadly, who had serious control issues).

Her favorite ABBA tune was Chiquitita.

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