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Grandma says she’s going to die. We both know she’s too strong to die soon. She laughs when I tell her that. She doesn’t know I’m sucking out her knowledge for when life gets bad. I wish she could know all her pain was worth it. At least for me.
Gabriel Crommie is a young writer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn NY.