My mother's mother died when she was 18 months old, and her father sent her and her older brother to live at the lake with their maternal grandmother, who grossly favored the brother (he has corroborated this). Jane had already been abandoned by both her parents and left to live there, so they both were essentially raised (my mother until she was 12, when shewent to live with her father and step mother) by a grandmother who was quite unkind. My mother was very loving, with her flaws of course, so I like to think that her birth mother gave her some loving for those first 18 months.
Uncle Bruni!