Both my grandmothers are widows, and have those kind of unnerving grave plots with their names and their birth year with a dash and a space to be filled in when they are put to rest. My mother's mother's birthday was yesterday, which took a little calculating. We know her birthday according to the lunar calender, which is what Korea went by back in the day. My mom figured out that the birthday was six days after the September full moon; I guess in Korea the first of the month is marked by the full moon, whereas here in America we start the lunar cycle with the new moon.
In other news, my other grandmother, my father's mother, just got a Facebook. I know-- an octogenarian on a popular social networking site! And she has a cell phone, too. And plays online poker. We're both the same animal in the zodiac, and I hope that when I'm her age-- assuming I live that long and don't die a tragic early death-- I'm something like her.
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