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...knew that at some point her body would fail her as well as her mind. Still, the news of her stroke, coming so soon after my maternal grandmother??s health scare, left me feeling painfully aware of every one of the thousand miles that separated me from my family...
...Manila than I can count on my hands and feet. Running the hospital very much remains the family business, and nearly everyone works for it in some capacity. Several cousins my own age are even enrolled at the nursing school, classmates in addition to lifelong friends. With my grandmother??s house next door acting as a central hub, they all live within a few minutes’ drive of each other. I’ve realized I can honestly claim no more than a handful of friends who are even Filipino; and being a lifelong New Yorker...
After Ms. Music’s final college exam, Mr. Murray presented her with his grandmother??s engagement ring at the Bombay Club, the site of their first official date together. He had already received her parents’ approval, after e-mailing them in Spanish (a language he had just started learning at the start of the semester). When she accepted, he showed her the e-mail. “It was very sweet to see my mother’s words,” Ms. Music says. “Amara was also super happy because...
...speak with them often, they can’t help feeling mostly cut off from their families and histories. Happiness sometimes creeps into the loneliness of the everyday, but the latter is their most prevalent emotional state. “It was a different life,” my grandmother??s friend, Masha, confided over our shakily poured cups of tea. “You can’t understand. You’ll never be able...
...from my grandparents’ garden into a bowl in my lap so we could eat them for dinner. My grandfather took my brother and me for rides on his tractor. I learned to pitch horseshoes. On the first Sunday in August, there was always a reunion of my grandmother??s family, when you could look up from your great aunt’s Jell-O salad (lime, with grated carrots) into eyes that were the same blue as your own. Ohio—that corner of Ohio—is the only place in the world where...