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    How To Be Like Grandma?

    Among my cherished photographs is one of Grandma working in her garden. My parents divorced when I was five years old and my sister only 4-months old. Though our mom had a fantastic job with the phone company, she felt she wanted the sustaining support of her mother when our house was sold and the divorce was final.

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    Dad removed himself out of our own lives and never paid child support and the transfer to my grandma’s tiny house meant giving up our nicer home rather than having my own bedroom. My mom, infant sister and I roomed together at grandma’s. We also had to put lots of our familiar furnishings and my possessions in storage. Being an older silent child and rather resentful due to the change in our situation it was easy for grandma to bond to my baby sister and of course she did.

    A bond which lasted my grandma’s life. We lived at my grandma’s for six decades, before our mom remarried. During this time, I felt ashamed of grandmother and indignation in the entire situation that put us there. It was just after my grandma’s departure, after I was grown, I started to realize the effect she had on me. It was then I gained a much over due respect for her.

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    Grandma hadn’t lived in her house for very long until we moved into her dwelling. She should have resented our birth and crowding into her newly acquired space, but she modifyed her life into what needed to be done in the moment. Hers was a one-bedroom house and she converted her dinning room to a bedroom for us. Grandma met adversity all her life and faced it down. She too had been one parent made to raise her two daughters alone. What was the source of her power? A terrific resilience and her exceptionally curious mind and religion.

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    Grandma was used full-time as a nurse in a veteran’s hospital and when she purchased her little white framed house with an empty large lot adjacent to itwas to repair it up and plant a broad garden. Grandma worked diligently at both tasks, long difficult swing shifts at the hospital, then as a gardener throughout the afternoon, while also looking after my sister while our mother worked days and I was in school.

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    Grandma had a real affinity for growing things and during the summer I could enter her backyard and select fresh vegetables or fruit anytime I wanted. You will find Bing cherries, peaches, apples, raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes, corn and more. You name it we had it fresh out of the garden. Mom bought a freezer that grandma and she could freeze food for us to eat in the winter. Sometimes my grandmother suffered from hell-in-a-hand basket irritability.

    She was high-spirited and quite frequently sharp tongued, which made it hard for me to enjoy her. But she was a strong independent woman and this is what I would rather consider about her and hope I have some of her better traits. She was able to say, “I try to learn something new each day, instruct myself daily.”

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    Final note

    Continually driven by a quest for knowledge and by her bidding belief in God, my grandmother left a legacy of durability, strength and an understanding that life is a journey consisting of experiences. There was a time I would not have wanted to be like or compared to my grandma. Today, I can not think of a better heritage or compliment.

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