Story Frame 16 – Chemotherapy, Alligators & Shrinking Kids

When my Danish grandmother was born in 1898, her father named her Karen Margrete. But soon everyone was calling her Grete. Frustrated and determined to have a daughter named Karen, my great grandfather also named his second daughter Karen.

I have a great aunt named Karen, at least one aunt, two cousins, and several second cousins.

But by far the most impo…