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a grandmother’s love                        

one of my role models in life ~ on how to treat others~ is my loving paternal grandmother, leona wolf. when i was home last month, i picked my aunts’ brains about what my grandmother was like- as a mother and as a mother-in-law — my cousins have always expressed to me how loving and gentle she was – especially when i mentioned that, even at the age of five, i felt like she made me feel like i was the most important person in the entire world– they responded by saying, ‘yes, that was grandma. – sorry to burst your bubble nelle, but she made everyone feel that way.’ i was young when she passed away, but remember her love so well. it was contagious and she truly made you feel like you were the most important person in life. 
… i loved her voice, how she cut my peanut butter and jelly toast into four squares, how we would play memory all day long, always watched nick at night and ate mint chocolate chip ice cream, and most of all, how she loved and how she treated others. although i have been stressed lately, i am trying to remember what my aunts told me when i asked, ‘was grandma always kind and accepting?’ and they answered, ‘always.’ this is how i want to be remembered. even when life gets hard, i want to treat others kindly – i always want to be accepting and most of all, i want others to know how much i love them. one of the things i cherish most is a letter that my cousin/godmother, jeanne, wrote to me in high school telling me how much my gentle soul reminded her of grandma… 
                           for there is no greater gift to me than those words. 

… who would have loved to see this day…