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What Family Illnesses Taught Me About Meeting the Moment
My mom’s mom, my grandma, used to save money and she would jokingly say that it was for a trip she would take to Bermuda. Then when an emergency would come up, if she had to use her vacation money, she would say, “There goes my trip to Bermuda.” I was little, she was ill and I didn’t know what or where Bermuda was or what it meant. Now I know she was talking about meeting the moment.