"family ties"

my mother married 
her highschool sweetheart
a boy with a babyface and a girl nicknamed "shoe"
my mother's mother married 
her 
highschool sweetheart 
met on a ski lift in the wisconsin flatlands 
my mother's mother's mother
married 
she was fresh from Poland 
and I can't remember his name
but he was probably 
her 
highschool
sweetheart too