Growing up my friends feared her. She will tell you to your face if you are fat, mean or a horrible person and chances are she would have nothing to do with you. She is a great judge of character. She is also very loyal to her friends. Though she comes off as tough she would never admit to being a softy when it came to people hurting, especially children.
The family knows to never ask her opinion unless they really wanted to know. For example when Steven recently found a girlfriend, she came and met the family before meeting Granny. There is no need to subject this poor girl to Granny unless she is going to stick around, you can ask my brothers girlfriend Danielle about that.
Growing up you always knew when she was around because she once was a very loud woman. She has some what toned down her loud and expressive voice since the passing of my Grandfather. It's almost as if when he died her joy did as well.
I am thankful for her today. She is my favorite and very well aware of that fact. She is the epitome of strength. She has endured and survived, the death of her son, her husband, her parents, and all of her brothers and sisters. She has had hip replacement, both knees replaced, open heart surgery, countless heart attacks, over a dozen strokes, double breast cancer and removal, and currently is living with an unknown type of cancer. She has full use of her body and mind. She has never drank, smoked or done drugs. She has been married to only one man, and will tell you all about if you ask. Don't ask, she goes into detail about the honeymoon and her kitchen table.
To me she is the meaning to strength.
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