She was ~Yesterday Minus 121

There’s something about October 15, indeed, it being the “approximate” date of my grandmother’s birthday… in 1905. I have pretty much blogged this same story before so more or less a repost, but the way she tells it in her own voice is something special. The featured photo are scans of old images, on the left 1955 (at 50) in the family home on Ridgewood Avenue in Baltimore that I barely remember as we moved when I was 2. The photo on the right was one I took the last time I saw her in a care home in Baltimore in 2001 (at 96). I would always tease Granny that she had to live to be 100 and she did her best getting to 98, much less 121. Just numbers. When “granny” came into the world there was no official paperwork to define when she was born. as I recall the story she was only able to get a official document when her older brother was able to find a record in the census that listed the number and ages of children in the house. I can’t recall if she totally picked a date of October 15 or…