Grandma Edith In 'Editing Your Life's Stories'

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Everyone in my family called my great grandma, grandma Edith no matters their relation to her, She was the kind of grandma that invited everyone to thanksgiving where she cooked too much so you could eat too much. Grandma Edith was the eldest and most respected members of the family and while she was older she had plenty of energy to run her business with my great aunt and argue about how to run it. Grandma Edith had a bad habit of adding numbers to the price tags on her antiques to make them more expensive, for example, if something was $25 she would pencil in a 0 to make it $250. Which my aunt hated because she was trying to get the business to run but she couldn’t when grandma Edith kept hiking up prices like that. My mom told me that Grandma Edith didn’t want to let go of all her stuff hearing that I kinda felt …show more content…
I didn’t change the story in my mind to make my grandma Edith less scary, however, I might have changed it to fit the hero image I placed her in. I may have seen the hurt Edith was causing my aunt when she was trying so hard to keep Edith alive and well, but I erased that part of the story to fit the story I wanted to see my grandma as the strong woman that could never do wrong. Even that silly hat I saw them arguing over could have been of poor quality, but if my grandma thought it was worth something I might have glorified it to fit my idea of her standards. Knowing that my memories of her could be so disoriented, I can't look back at what I thought I knew for sure about my grandma and know now if that’s really how she was like. For all, I know she could've been a lot different than I remember her being. Turns out all that looking back trying hard not to forget her probably hurt my memory of her more than it did help me keep

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