I would have to come home from school early. She could sling a gun, but she could sing you to sleep at night. She could rock a baby, but she could chop a tree down. And I don't know that there's anything that she could not do. My grandmother was about 6-feet-tall, brown-skinned. It almost felt like no matter how cold it was outside, it got warmer when I was in the room with her. And when things was just crazy, I could run and hide up under her skirt tail and knew that for a moment I had some safety. My grandfather was a hard-working man, but hellfire and brimstone. MADZIMOYO OWUSU: My grandmother was my savior. She talked to her 12-year-old daughter Johannah about growing up with grandma. She lived in the same apartment building as her grandmother.
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