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My daughter's school hosted a "Grandparents / Grand-Friends Day" on Friday. We had asked their grandfather, but he wasn't able to go due to working 6, sometimes 7 days a week - Fridays are his usual day off but he sometimes picks up extra hours at his 2nd job. I totally understood why he couldn't make it. MIL lives in NY, and well...she's a flake. She's met my oldest daughter 2, maybe 3 times? Hasn't seen my youngest daughter except once when she was only a month old. My parents died so long ago it seems. My mom when I was 12, my dad when I was 16. I'll be 30 in a few months. We got the form home to "RSVP" but after that it wasn't even a thought - until we pulled up to school drop-off and I realized why there were so many extra cars along the road. Once we all realized the reason, she started crying - she didn't want to be the "only one without a grandparent" - I felt awful. Immediately. I cried in the drop-off line to