2019

My mom died in 2020, a month shy of her 96th birthday...which was May 17...you couldn't forget the date because she made up a rhyme "Seven-TEEN-Clemen-TEEN". She was a real character and I miss her a lot.

She moved closer to me after my father died. I used to take her out for lunch every week because she missed Chinese food. She always had this satisfied, but exhausted look afterward. “This is the most I’ve eaten in months!” she would say every week.