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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My Mother was Middlesborough KY (next to Cumberland Gap near where the borders of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet.) She called her grandfather Big Daddy, he had passed away before I came along, and I was very young when her own “Daddy” my grandfather died... But for year's I was confused on which one was big daddy... You see I was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, my grandparents from my dads side were called grandma & grandpa, and they lived down stairs from us. I only remember visiting with my moms dad a few times, and she always called him big daddy. Now I realized she was calling him Big Daddy for my and his benefit... Example “ now you behave around Big Daddy, or I'm sure Big Daddy won't mind... Lol mind you I was very young and called my own dad “Daddy” I understood it was my moms Daddy... I thought I should call him grandpa like my other grandpa and like EVERYONE I knew called theirs...and this is going to sound crazy but I'm in my 50’s and all this time I was confused thinking my mom called her dad big daddy because even as she would talk about her childhood to me she would refer to him as such, but also refer to her grandfather as such too! ( talk about confused)  I never thought to ask her why she called her dad big daddy... It wasn't till after my mother passed away... The subject got brought up between my much older brother and I... All these years my mother was referring to her father in what most people would say grandpa... Lol I wish she would had said “your big daddy” maybe then I'd had caught on much quicker! My mother being from the deep south just expected me to understand! Now I do!  [/quote]

Please share with me how you managed to find this thread from seven years ago.  Did you put "big daddy" in the search field?  Inquiring minds want to know.[/quote]

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