Grandpa Oscar Research Paper

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“Don’t take life for granted,” Grandpa Oscar once said. Since chewing on crayons and high school reality torture occurs, grandpa has always been greatly involved in life. One grandparent every kid wants to have. We would go on endless walks through Vegas and we always went through luxurious buildings across town. Although, grandparents not exactly like parents, he has been a teacher, a friend and role model.
Obviously, grandpa has silver in his hair and gold in his heart. Each day he has been getting older. Since years back, Grandpa Oscar has developed a few health conditions, while his heart weak as tissue, they had diagnosed him with prostate cancer. Not being able to stay active but he has been living through it. Presuming he is tired and run down all the time, heart says, “Never let go”. Although he lives alone, people from church and family would help him with his conditions. We both have been attending church praying for him to get better, and while encouraging him through it. It has been indeed overwhelming, we all just hoped for the best, and we all knew that god would do the right thing.
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Grandpa did not always lecture good things; he himself practiced all of them and set an example for others. During childhood, community work had always felt, as a sheer waste of time and that, and that people should not work for welfare of others. Grandpa Oscar said that, “A person will always live forever known for his/her deeds and not for his/her richness.” These words stuck from that day onwards; now, sunshine rolls through curtains immense satisfaction, while helping others and long to do so. One sunny day, while doing community service at church, one sign in particular said that, “It is only by giving, does one

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