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Above is a photo of some acrylic scrubber sponge thingies my grandma knit. While I was staying at my parents' house over Christmas, my mom gave me the two to take back home. She said that they're the next big thing in the Korean grocery stores (Han Ah Rheum and H-Mart) these days and sell for $3 a pop or so. Apparently they're supposed to be bacteria resistant so very good to use as sponges/scrubbers for dishes. My grandma's quite the wiz with yarn.

I got a call Friday afternoon from my mom about my grandma. She told me she was sick. People get sick. But my grandma's 96 years old. She's seen war first hand. She's seen her homeland torn apart. She left a lot of her family behind. She's still very active and only recently started using a cane.

But I guess she's feeling pretty weak right now. My mom wants me to come home on Monday to see her. She's never asked me to do anything like this before. It might be the last time I see her. My mom said that if it's really looking bad, my grandma's going to go back to Korea. She didn't say "before it's too late" or "to die there" but I knew what she meant.

Here's a shot of my grandma a few months ago at her 96th birthday party just before we blew out the candles. The iMac is video Skyping my cousins [her grandchildren] from Korea who are teaching english for the next year.

Here's a shot of my grandma with my cousin and my mom standing in front of her garden in May. The lettuce greens were coming up nicely at that point.

It'll be an unexpected trip back up to NY, but what are you gonna do. I'll find out what time I should be headed back in the morning.

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