The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome and the Potential Downfall Of American Society
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How To Kill Your Imaginary Friends 
Love this, and am strongly tempted to send a copy to my mother, advising her to seek therapy for her suicidal tendencies, now self-evident in the fact that she has started college savings funds for each of her four grandchildren!
Genius!
Funny, but perhaps a little insensitive.
I don’t mean to offend your sensibilities, atsiko. Sorry about that.
You know, I was wondering how they were going to account for the greater number of grandmothers… Still, it seems to me that divorce and remarriage can’t account for all the extra grandmothers’ deaths. I knew one student who had 12 grandmothers die in the course of their education. Since you only gain one new grandmother through remarriage, that would mean the student’s parents would have to have remarried several times. Unless one counts the stepmother’s mother as a grandmother… In any case, I’m sure it’s rare for a student’s parents to each remarry three times or more during 4 years of schooling.
Perhaps there is a secret cloning device only available to grandmothers of college students? Or perhaps, because the grandmothers worry so much about the students, they keep coming back to life to continue worrying… perhaps as zombies or vampires. That would definitely explain the rise in popularity of both…