"You know that bad news never had good timing..." -John Mayer My grandmother lived with us when I grew up. There was always someone there to watch my brother and I our entire childhood. Both of my parents worked and as such having my grandma there made things a bit easier for them I'm sure. Looking back, I have happy memories of her being there. She got me to the bus stop. She made sure I got into the house in the afternoons. Once I was home, I was fed and happy. She would tell me stories about how she worked in factories making clothes or how she went to Mexico and it was "the dirtiest place she had ever seen". Apparently there were flies everywhere, on the food, on the people, everywhere. The one constant was laughing. And love. And caring. Ok three constants. She made me laugh all the time whether it was her critiques of our neighbors way of doing things or her observations of the news and world in general my grandma made me laugh all the time. As a ki...
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