Nana
I waited 22 years to have real Grandparents. I enjoyed you only for a year.
But there are so many memories...
The shower, my shower - you pinned the flowers on me - it was your birthday and you got so exited about my little present. You used to embroider too - so you knew all the "secrets" and the enjoyment of it...
The Seders. Both of them - but especially the last one. I paid attention to a line saying - "The mother of the sons is happy", and wanted to show it to you but the men went on with the service and I thought to myself - next year... and there is no next year...
One of the most precious memories for me - the dinner that we brought to you because you couldn't come to us and I wanted you to see that we really can cook... You said it was the first dinner your grandchildren did for you - and were so happy that there was no sugar in the cucumber salad...
Little and big memories make you whole in my mind. When I get to be a grandmother - you will be my example.
Thank you,
Genia
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Mom wrote this in May, 1976 just after my Nana Rahel died. She had been taken into the hospital with an unknown ailment just before Mother's Day, but the Dicklers still got together and put their best efforts into celebrating though Nana was dying a few blocks away in the hospital. Only her children were allowed to see her that week, so Mom and I had last seen her two weeks earlier at a Sunday brunch. This was Mom's way of saying goodbye.
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