It is rough losing your grandparents, they play such a vital role during our upbringing in how they compliment our parents. I’m so sorry for your loss.I'm still processing the grief. Lost my grandfather (or the closest thing to a grandfather I had, her husband, who I'd known since birth) just a few weeks ago and my grandmother died last night.
I had the incredible experience of growing up with great-grandmothers and grandmothers on both my maternal and paternal sides, and I had them for nearly all of my childhood.
It's hard to quantify the loss. I was just learning more about her as an adult, since she was down in Alabama I only got to see her once a year or so. She faced the absolute brutality of the apartheid South her entire life, and particularly as a young mother. The last time I saw her was at my law school graduation, spent some days and got to talk to her more than I'd ever gotten to before.
This shyt is tough.
I'm still processing the grief. Lost my grandfather (or the closest thing to a grandfather I had, her husband, who I'd known since birth) just a few weeks ago and my grandmother died last night.
I had the incredible experience of growing up with great-grandmothers and grandmothers on both my maternal and paternal sides, and I had them for nearly all of my childhood.
It's hard to quantify the loss. I was just learning more about her as an adult, since she was down in Alabama I only got to see her once a year or so. She faced the absolute brutality of the apartheid South her entire life, and particularly as a young mother. The last time I saw her was at my law school graduation, spent some days and got to talk to her more than I'd ever gotten to before.
This shyt is tough.