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I Love You, Grandma
The whole family gently place food and flower all over Grandma. Her closest friend tears up as he hammers the nails down to seal off the casket. We watch as the coffin is loaded up into a car, and all of her friends and family follow the van into a two story, brick building in Taipei, Taiwan. A forklift exits out of the building to receive the reddish brown casket. Grandma’s family surrounds the casket as we walk into a room which has three crematoriums built into three white walls. We stand at the entrance of a bay with sliding, white panel doors watching the forklift raising the casket for it to slide inside. Flames rise, slobbering over the corners of the casket as it descends downwards. The whole family turns away from the scene except me, standing there with a teardrop forming in the corner of my eyes, heavy with memory. Before we leave the room, I say my last farewell, “Goodbye, Nai Nai. I will always love you.”
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