an interview With my Grandma

This past semester, I was writing, just not sharing it with y'all on my blog. I had to write in AP style which is why I didn't share it with y'all. It doesn't sound very... me. But here's what I wrote after interviewing my grandma. There is much more that I have to say about this interview, but I will leave y'all with this. Ask your grandparents questions. Hug them tight. Make them feel as special as they've made you feel.

When asked to reflect on her life in her 20s, Sharlene Fayette of Florida thinks fondly of a time that was vastly different from today. 

She mentions being a young girl in love and the social norms at the time. At 19 Fayette was married and by 20 she was raising her first baby. She enjoyed being a mother, going to the movies, and spending time with her family by the water. 

Fayette recalled her fondest memories in her early years of motherhood being spent with her mother-in-law, Mariamma. 

At a time with no cell phones, having Mariamma living down the street was a great help when it came to being a frightened first-time mother. 

“We had signals with our front porch lights. I would switch my front porch light on and off and she would let me know that she was home safe by flipping her light on and off. And so if I flipped mine on and off she knew to come.” recalled Fayette. 

After being asked if she had done anything different, she declines and concludes that she loves her family and is thankful for the way her family turned out. 

Xo,

Ri