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- Jaline0
My mom's childhood friend from Malaysia is over here right now and my mom is telling her the story of how my grandmother got her citizenship. I didn't know it before.
My grandmother died in 1993, when my little sister was just 1. She had breast cancer, initially, and then it spread to other parts. Her one wish before dying was to become a Canadian citizen. My mom's other siblings just told their mother to look it up in the phonebook, so my mom decided that she would take care of it. That's the one thing I will always know about my mother. She gets important things done. She eventually talked to a justice of the peace, and explained the situation. The woman came over to the hospital around 8 PM, when my mom's other siblings wouldn't be there to cause trouble, and asked my grandmother the necessary questions while she was barely conscious. After the questioning, she just winked at my mom to suggest that she had answered the questions properly for my grandmother, and submitted the papers. My grandma got her citizenship soon after, and talked about it all the time, excited. She died about 3 weeks after.
- wowjanne76
- thanks for sharing that. it's a great story. shame you didn't get to know her.airey
- I was pretty young when she passed away, yes. I do remember one or two things, which is good :)Jaline
- I knew there was more to your Mother than you had previously indicated. A nice story.MrOneHundred
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- My mom usually has good intentions. I just think she changed a lot over the last 10 years.Jaline
- Health issues and whatnot have added to it, but it's more mental. Higher degree of OCD, being worried, moody, "life sucks", etc.Jaline
- Really though, her life is good. She takes things for granted. I wish I had really known her before.Jaline
- Anyway, the short of it is: I will still try to get along with her, and she's not all that bad once in a while.Jaline