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grandmother Bobbie is scary at times. My humor and<br />
personality is from my father’s side with Grandma Joyce<br />
and Grandpa Roy. It makes me wonder if I will live to<br />
see myself in my grandchildren. I wonder what my great<br />
grandchildren will ask me. Will it be about where I was on<br />
September 11 or the riots on Wall Street? I wonder what<br />
awesome or maybe even terrible things are to come in my<br />
lifetime. Will my future grandchildren ask me with wonder<br />
and awe of Lady Gaga? Or will they just sit with their<br />
iPhone 10 and play games? I have learned in my short time<br />
here on earth that human beings strive to achieve one goal:<br />
It is not to be rich or famous or powerful. It is to be remembered.<br />
<strong>The</strong> fame, money, and status are just by-products<br />
of pursuing lasting remembrance. I think my grandparents—along<br />
with myself and the rest of the world—just<br />
want the simple act of other’s acknowledgement that they<br />
lived. So I write about their long and treasured lives so<br />
they will be a forever and lasting memory. This is their<br />
legacy. This is my way of helping them say, “I lived.”<br />
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“Callie Jade” by Lauren Schweer
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