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loveandthepreventionofscurvy by `cryptorchid:iconcryptorchid:

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©2005-2009 `cryptorchid
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for love and the prevention of scurvy.

My Grandmother. She just turned eighty-nine last week, we all thought she was turning 90, which was quite the laugh when my dad pointed out that the dates just did not add up. Ha, her goal is to live until 90, so I was really pleased, now she HAS to stick around.
My Grammy moved in with my family shortly after i was born, around the time my parents divorced. As two older sisters went to daycare and kindergarten respectively, Grandma cared for me while my mother worked. My earliest memories are of my grandmother, rolling me around in my stroller, buying me Dodos (onions) which I had a fondness for eating raw, watching soap operas and hearing her exclamations in broken English about this or that affair, and all the times she bathed me in baking soda after one of my many bouts of chicken pox.
Later, we looked after each other during some terrible times... when I put my mother in a nursing home, and ended up having to sell our house, my Grammy too, went into a home. She lives not far from me now, and I visit her as often as I can. Everytime i see her, she gives me orange after orange. She has always been concerned about my fruit consumption, and her certainty that i would eventually catch pneumonia. Thanks to her, I have fended off the scurvy.
My Grandmother has survived more than I can imagine, and I love her more than anything.

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~azulitalinda Dec 18, 2005, 11:09:59 PM
this is such a touching story in ur description and i love the photographs to fo with it. the light is WOW.. beautifully done julia, you inspiere me even more day by day :hug:

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~Kan-n Dec 19, 2005, 12:24:02 AM
it's pretty sad

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~SoulSucker Dec 19, 2005, 1:36:03 AM
Beatiful but... sad!

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~snorri-spanglehelm Dec 19, 2005, 2:57:54 AM
great detail

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~ElectronCloud Dec 19, 2005, 3:55:02 AM
the right one.......!
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~Piskie Dec 19, 2005, 4:36:41 AM
That's a really touching story, I'm not normally one for sentimentality but I'm welling up just a tiny bit.My Gran's 89 too and we're all hoping she'll make it a bit longer but nothing's certain.I love it when people actually use the description, it makes an image mean so much more.Thank you.

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=arwenpandora Dec 19, 2005, 8:34:06 AM
:hug: this piece was beautifully done.. :happycry:

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~inremotepart Dec 19, 2005, 10:27:12 AM
The photo on it's on is beautiful, the shadows, contrast, composition, but the story adds so much more emotion to it, so touching. Wonderful :)
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