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A Grandmother is Love that

You Never Outgrow

mmachy is the very foun- veniently concealed that this idea
Adation of our family. All germinated one weekend in Abu
her life, she has strived towards Dhabi when the Gulf part of the
ensuring that everyone within the family had gathered there. So I
family is happy. There are many was not wholly responsible for it.
memories of her and I love rem- Since then, Ammachy has
iniscing about them. used the analogy of a “garland
It was in 2008 that I started a with beads”, with each of us in
Pooppallil Yahoo Group. When I the family being the beads, and
told her its concept, she was fas- our love being the string. She
cinated and wanted me to show hinted that I was the lock of this
her what it was. What excited her garland, but as the years passed
was that her kids and grandkids by, I realized that she said the
had found a way to keep in touch same thing to others too. That’s
and since then, she has never tired what is so great about her-she
of telling me that she was glad makes everyone feel special.
that I took the initiative. I con- During my engineering days

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