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On the Feast of the Dead, the old woman carefully laid out plates of food on the graves of her beloved dead.
Seeing her, the missionary sneered.
“When do you think your dead are going to come back to eat the food that you put on their graves?” he asked.
The old woman smiled.
When I finally cleaned out my mom's desk I found a roll of film. I expected that there might be pictures of her on it and I was thinking of it as a sort of message from the dead before I saw the pictures, and I was right-- but also wrong. There were pictures of my gramma on it. Mom's mom.
I saw the images as digital files dropboxed to me from the film developer on the 9th, which was the 9th anniversary of gramma's death. If that weren't enough, earlier that day I'd also gotten an automated reminder message in my email from a memorial website about gramma. It took me longer than it should have to figure out what she was trying to tell me. It was simple: she wanted to be remembered.
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Halloween. I'm not a fan of this time of year. There's all the horror movies and everything associated with the day. I never dressed up as a kid or for that matter as an adult. I never did trick or treat. We just didn't do it.
Now when we talk about the day being a time to honor the ancestors, this I can get into. I'm the family historian. I've got the genealogy records and do the research. I've done the DNA through Ancestry (fascinating). This is a thing for me.
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