My grandmother was from a town in Michigan. I was from the city and 1 the small town they lived in. People knew everyone. The 2 with them continued to grow as I got older.
Grandma was always using her 3 for something exciting ... She would make little sandwiches, she'd plant flowers and carefully 4 them. I remember the small thimble(顶针) she would use while doing her needle work.
A few years ago, when Grandma 5, I bid farewell to a loving Grandmother ... How quickly our lives can change. I missed her very much, but I 6 it mostly on a birthday, 7 there was no card from Grandma. She'd never forgotten my birthday!
On one particular birthday, something happened to make me feel like she was 8 that special day with me. I was 9 some colorful pillows that she had made, and 10 I felt something inside one pillow. I moved the object to a seam(接缝) that I carefully opened, and to my 11 out came a tiny silver thimble!
How happy I was to find something that had been a part of her. I carefully laid the thimble along side the others I've 12 over the years, where I could continue to see the 13 God chose to reveal to me.
What a 14 memory of a very special lady who somehow, I knew, was laughing in delight at 15 her thimble inside my pillow.
