When receiving a pair of earrings, it may come as a gift from your significant other or a birthday present, but my circumstances were quite different when I had received these graceful shimmering yellow pieces of jewelry. Traveling into a nostalgic room of my youthful past, I remembered the last time I shared a relatively short yet memorable conversation with my grandmother. She had made a tremendous effort of traveling all the way from Mexico to make her last visit. My grandmother was already diagnosed with diabetes but she seemed to have known that she wouldn’t have the ability to travel in the near future. She would sit up on my brother’s bed, with her ankles crossed and interlock her fingers, placing them over her stomach. I shyly walked
