A little story I want to share today.
...and happy second anniversary to my new girls actually showing up on Ultimate's CSS.
My "grandmother" turns 85 today. She is not my real grandmother but I have known her and her extensive immediate family since circa 1968. I had family that lived a few blocks up the hill from them at that time even though I moved to Atlanta in early 1964.
It was around July 1990 when one of her daughters was going to have a son. I lost my whole family to complications a few years before then, but they finally decided to take me in and I have been living with them since.
My "grandmother" had quite a number of children. She had several daughters--one born in 1957 but passed away in 2003, another born late 1959 but passed away in 2020, one born in late 1958 and still with us today, another born in 1961 but five months older than I am, another in spring of 1963, another in late 1964 (this particular one is my "mom"), and had a son in spring of 1971.
She married a war veteran and he quite a handyman. He was born 1939 and passed away in 2015. Since then she lived alone and even experienced a break-in. Praise God she made it out of that **** alive. One of her grandsons (1996-present) has been tending to her, especially as his father (circa 1953-2023) passed away about a month ago. Similar to me, he is without an immediate family.
In more recent years, her house has grown mold in the cellar and she is still living in it despite her daughters' pleas to get the house renovated. She visited me past summer and she has recently returned to Georgia, staying with her now-eldest daughter. Today, they are going to celebrate with dinner at Red Lobster. Me, I ain't going, not with my awful social anxiety. Besides, if you had it once, you had it your whole life.
Here is hoping she lives another 15-20 years. To put things in perspective, one woman near where I stay was born in 1909 and she celebrated her birthday about a month and a half ago!
It was around July 1990 when one of her daughters was going to have a son. I lost my whole family to complications a few years before then, but they finally decided to take me in and I have been living with them since.
My "grandmother" had quite a number of children. She had several daughters--one born in 1957 but passed away in 2003, another born late 1959 but passed away in 2020, one born in late 1958 and still with us today, another born in 1961 but five months older than I am, another in spring of 1963, another in late 1964 (this particular one is my "mom"), and had a son in spring of 1971.
She married a war veteran and he quite a handyman. He was born 1939 and passed away in 2015. Since then she lived alone and even experienced a break-in. Praise God she made it out of that **** alive. One of her grandsons (1996-present) has been tending to her, especially as his father (circa 1953-2023) passed away about a month ago. Similar to me, he is without an immediate family.
In more recent years, her house has grown mold in the cellar and she is still living in it despite her daughters' pleas to get the house renovated. She visited me past summer and she has recently returned to Georgia, staying with her now-eldest daughter. Today, they are going to celebrate with dinner at Red Lobster. Me, I ain't going, not with my awful social anxiety. Besides, if you had it once, you had it your whole life.
Here is hoping she lives another 15-20 years. To put things in perspective, one woman near where I stay was born in 1909 and she celebrated her birthday about a month and a half ago!
...and happy second anniversary to my new girls actually showing up on Ultimate's CSS.
What Pokémon were you possibly trying to name that got censored