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Originally posted by aurora_borealis
When my grandmother died we had a small service for close family and friends. I was a teenager and I know it was a black dress with a white collar and I had these pilgrimesque shoes. My sister wanted to put a red A on me since my first name begins with an A and our grandmother had taught English for many years.
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Be glad you didn't, or you would have been walking around like Hester Prynn in Nathanial Hawthorne's
The Scarlet Letter. Though I suppose that too would have been a shout-out to your grandmother's career.
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My grandmother had a whole elaborate party planned for everyone to celebrate her life, and I remember I wore a yellow dress with flowers on it and this outrageous collar.... When my grandma died last year, I wore black for the service, but many people wore bright colors as they remember her as this vibrant red headed lady that sported a purple hat with a red flower (there is a poem out there about it).
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That sounds so much like my grandmother! She was an amazing woman. The evening after the funeral, we all went out to her favorite resteraunt for beer & pizza and toasted Gran and her life. It sounds like your grandma was an awesome woman, too.