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Tuesdays with my Grandmother - by Tara Monjazeb - Devotions

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What is grief, if not love persevering?

This past Tuesday was the three-year anniversary of my Grandma’s passing. Tuesdays were her day. She picked us up from school and bought us McDonald’s ice cream. In the summers we’d go swimming and she’d bring Nature Valley granola bars and cut up fruit. When I outgrew summer camp, she and I spent Tuesdays in June at the mall, having apricot tarts and lemonade at Le Pain Quotidien. I was convinced that as long as Tuesday existed, she would too. I was sixteen when she was diagnosed with cancer and eighteen when she passed away. She was fairly young. I often feel regret thinking about the…

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