If my grandma Inez were still alive, she would have celebrated being 100 years old on October 12th! It is hard for me to believe that I knew someone who was alive 100 years ago. Sometimes I forget how old I am, or how long it's been since I was a teenager. Time is getting harder to keep track of.
I never spent a lot of time with my grandparents since we lived far away from them. I didn't know them well. But they raised my mom to be a very intelligent, caring, thoughtful, responsible, daring, funny woman. My strongest memory of my grandma is of her smiling shyly, and like she was on the verge of giggling. She had a great smile.
She also had beautiful lilac bushes in her yard, and I always think a house should have lilac bushes. And a big porch. And candy on hand at all times. And a dressmaking dummy. And an attic filled with old treasures. And lots of smiles and giggles.
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