{"id":6199,"date":"2021-12-25T17:40:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T16:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/towncryyers.com\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2021-12-25T17:41:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T16:41:46","slug":"what-my-grandmother-taught-me-about-the-power-of-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/towncryyers.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/25\/what-my-grandmother-taught-me-about-the-power-of-family\/","title":{"rendered":"What My Grandmother Taught Me About The Power Of Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A high-stress moment in the doctor&#8217;s office urged me to reflect on the lessons my yia-yia passed down to me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Isabella Huffington<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All I can think about is my grandmother. In typical Greek fashion, my yia-yia lived with us. She wore muumuus, always, no matter how fancy the occasion. 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She was wearing a sunflower muumuu, her grey hair was in pigtails with blue scrunchies, and her hands smelled like the sea. I sat next to her, staring at my goldfish Sandy, Shell, and Seaweed, willing them to do something interesting. They didn\u2019t, and I decided they were the three most boring animals on the entire planet. The windows in every room were thrown open. It was a humid Los Angeles summer night, and my yia-yia never liked AC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then she fell. She sat on the beige carpeted floor of her bedroom with my mom and my aunt huddled on either side of her. My sister was ten and I was eight, and we were oblivious as we razor-scootered around them \u2014 and that\u2019s how she wanted it. She didn\u2019t want to die in a hospital. 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I remember thinking that hospitals had the best ice and wondering if I could get hospital ice outside of a hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My yia-yia always smelled like gardenias. She always loved wearing gardenias in her hair, gardenias pinned to her dress, and gardenias in her pockets. But she didn\u2019t smell like gardenias that day. She smelled funny, like a stranger. I willed her to wake up. But she never did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After she was cremated, we took a tiny boat out to sea in Marina Del Rey to scatter her ashes mixed with pink and white rose petals. I threw them overboard, but the day was windy so they flew back in my face. I still remember the sound of my sister crying. 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