This is the story of an eighteen-year-old woman who is standing in front of the casket of her grandmother as well as her four-year-old daughter. Standing there she looks to her daughter and begins to share her story of her alcoholic and abusive mother that exited her life around the same age as her daughter. She shares her few memories of her mother that include her beating her, drinking and having screaming matches with her husband. It was a difficult life for a child, but her balance was found when she got to spend time with her grandmother. It is soon clear that her grandmother is the backbone of support that she desperately. After a series of events she ends up living with her grandmother at the age of four until she was fourteen. It was then that she got pregnant. She tried to hide it from her grandmother as to not disappoint her but after a few months she asked her why she’s sick all the time. Eventually her grandmother gets it out of her and she tells her that together they can get through anything. She keeps the baby, goes back to school and raises her daughter at her grandmother’s house. It is the death of her grandmother that brings the family back together. It is at the funeral that her mother finally comes back into her life, sitting on the front row and asking her if she can please meet her granddaughter. In the end she doesn’t know what is going to become of her and her mother, but she does know that she is going to continue to be an amazing mother, to make her grandmother proud.
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