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Grandma Dori
(Ninety years old)
Wife to Philip, Mother to one, Grandma to nine, Grandma-in law to nine, Great-grandma to twenty-six.
My great-granddaughter Mabel is straddled over my body, her arms limp around my neck. She’s fast asleep in my lap while I look at a room filled with family and friends, people I’ve been blessed to know. I love the smell of Mabel’s apple shampoo. It’s a scent that pulls me back to a time when I was the mother of a young one.
As I watch my family dance together, laugh together, and talk together, gratitude swells inside me. Through my ninety years, my life has taken so many twists and turns—I have no idea how I navigated myself to this moment when all my grandkids and their children are celebrating my life. All present and accounted for.
I wish Tim
