... with them, but I was respectful enough to listen to their memories and be understanding of why they felt so much pain. One morning before the rosary my grandma wasn't feeling well. She had a really bad cough and said that it felt like someone was choking her. She was so tired and cold and was ... fixing her wires, and the third was assisting the doctor with an ultrasound. The doctor was asking a lot of questions, but it was hard for my grandma to reply because she had an oxygen mask forcing air into her lungs, and my sister had to answer for her. After all the questions, my sister ... ...

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... validate myself worth. She taught me to always honor my family and never do anything in the heat of the moment that I wouldn't be proud of in the morning. My grandma was the strength in my entire family. She clothed us, fed us and made sure we had discipline. She kept us in line, even made us go out in the ... clothes, saying stuff like "tell your mom to get a job and buy you a dress that isn't from the 1800's". I never let it bother me because I adopted a certain attitude from my grandma when I was very young, but it tore my sisters up. I think it was because they wanted so badly to be...

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... ones who don't culturally fit into the community and hold different perspectives of the food (Lecture 4.5.16). For instance, in Grandma's Table, Steve Yarbrough describes his cousin's husband, Nick, as an outsider since Nick does not enjoy the food that his grandma makes. Coming from an upper class, he even feels disgusted because he has never had such kinds of food: " ... ...

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