It was 1918. Grandpa loved his 9 grandchildren, but the Flu was deadly, so whenever a grandchild approached, he held up his hand, and shouted, “Hey!”

His grandkids still loved him, but they never hugged.

They started calling him “Heypappy”, and that’s how it was for his remaining 25 years.

Harry Demarest wrote this true story about his great grandfather, Franklin Conklin.