It’s September 18th, 2016, and my nana and I are both sitting on my bed in which the sheets were still removed from getting washed earlier that day. She has short hair as dark as chocolate, and brown, loving eyes with circular gold frames around them that watched me as I prepared my questions. She had her signature coral lipstick on that she always wore so well. It’s an overcast, yet mildly warm day with the kind of clouds that are a smokey gray with a dash of sunlight emerging from behind them. In the background, the sounds of my family along with Seahawks game coming from the living room was undeniable. We’re both stuffed from the delicious burgers we’d just eaten from red robins. As a child, my nana left Germany with her family as refugees at the very young age of 3. Once they arrived in Ellis Island, New York, they then
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“I don’t think I would have done anything differently. I think that I made the right choices at the time.” With all of the responsibility and maturity that my nana already had at such a young age, this seems like a completely valid and accurate. Although she didn’t have any noteworthy regrets during this period of her life, she did include some advice that she would give her past self if she had the chance to. “Be strong, have fun, and try to do the right thing. You won’t always succeed, but try,” she says while removing a smudge from her glasses with the sleeve of her sweatshirt. Our black and white cat named Clyde then struts into the room as a late viewer of this conversation. Of course, life never goes exactly as it’s planned to, but as for my nana, she seemed to have a pretty good prediction for how her life would turn out at this current point in time. “Everything is definitely the way I’d expected it to be. This is because I’ve been true to myself, and I’ve had fun, and I’ve tried to do the right
“I don’t think I would have done anything differently. I think that I made the right choices at the time.” With all of the responsibility and maturity that my nana already had at such a young age, this seems like a completely valid and accurate. Although she didn’t have any noteworthy regrets during this period of her life, she did include some advice that she would give her past self if she had the chance to. “Be strong, have fun, and try to do the right thing. You won’t always succeed, but try,” she says while removing a smudge from her glasses with the sleeve of her sweatshirt. Our black and white cat named Clyde then struts into the room as a late viewer of this conversation. Of course, life never goes exactly as it’s planned to, but as for my nana, she seemed to have a pretty good prediction for how her life would turn out at this current point in time. “Everything is definitely the way I’d expected it to be. This is because I’ve been true to myself, and I’ve had fun, and I’ve tried to do the right