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New Prompt!
Your grandmother dies and leaves you a trunk full of stuff.
What do you find inside?
What do you learn about your grandmother that you didn’t know before?
Does this change your life in any way?

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Grandmother cherished many things of heart,
worth more to her than I will ever know.
Knowing her was only to know a part
of the elegant lady I loved so.
Practical to the very core of her--
only bought what she knew that she could use
because she remembered when she endured
life's scarcity and hunger, and refused
to be caught wanting by Depression's lack
of goods or comforts; she had suffered much
from that hard era--didn't want it back
and saw that frugal living, careful touch
would avert the crisis she feared deep down--
the remnants left from her frugal world
reflect devotion to eternal crown,
beloved family, their flag unfurl'd.
So, finding her best treasures brought surprise
to my young soul, so tempted with easy
glitz of my disposable modern life;
to view her modest pleasures made me see
her life's happiness, her unexpressed joys--
what she kept and left in her trunk to me
was a composite of her life; the noise
of the hard times absorbed by the beauty
which escaped from her soul, recovered in
possessions, long dusty but touched by love
of a simple woman trying to win
at a life ruled by faith from Above!