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Grasping for words

Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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Even at the brink of losing everything, she is a fighter to the core.

Her grip is stronger these days, more desperate. Sometimes she doesn't even need to hold on to some thing. She would just continue to reach out, sometimes finding our hands, clasping tightly. Sometimes more restless, grasping at seemingly empty air. Her arms stretch out, high above her head. What are you volunteering for? Why are you raising your hand?

What do you see in your mind, Grandma? You have been sleeping for a while now. Do you have visions of the past, of your childhood dreams? Regrets have abandoned your bedside. What could have been, had been so you do not have to worry.

Last Sunday might have been my last visit. You opened your eyes at the sound of my voice and I think you might have recognized me, but I cannot be sure. I will believe that you did, though. I will miss you.
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Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
On Love: a novel by Alain De Botton
Empire of Memory by Eric Gamalinda
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Complete Brothers Grimm Fairytales
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Blindness by Jose Saramago
All the Names by Jose Saramago
Poems: New and Collected of Wislawa Zymborska
Extravagaria by Pablo Neruda
The Selected Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke
Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Geiman
Endless Nights by Neil Geiman
Sandman: The Dreamhunters by Neil Geiman
The Real Life of Sebastian Night by Vladmir Nabokov
Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Dead Stars" Paz Marquez Benitez
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, "The Company of Wolves" by Angela Carter

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She died, as they all die. They do not live long. But she made Sto-oa happy, for a moment, and on her death he translated her into his center, to burn inside the heart of a star and comfort him through the long night." -Neil Geiman, Sandman Endless Nights
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