My grandfather was an undocumented immigrant. My great-grandmother, my bisabuela, carried him over the border in her arms.
My grandfather was a vicar, and there was quite a lot of churchgoing when I was growing up. It's a world that I spent a lot of time around.
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).
My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.
My grandfather served as a gunner aboard the U.S.S. Alabama in the Pacific theater during WWII.
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.