• In 1990, my parents moved our family from West to East Germany to build a new life. • My kids now face the same distance I once had from my own grandparents. • We've turned long-distance grandparenting into something deeply meaningful.

In 1990, one year after the Berlin Wall came down, my parents decided to move from Western Germany to Eastern Germany to become a Tupperware franchise partner.

For my parents, it was a goldmine. People were starved of luxury for almost 30 years, and they were hungry to discover the world and everything it had to offer.

I was 8 years old at the time, and I remember when my parents told my younger siblings and me that we would be moving.

My heart sank. I just started primary school and had to leave my friends behind and start over again. The worst pa

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