74TH HEARTBEAT

JORDI ADKINS

This year’s thanksgiving dinner with our family was promising to be nothing but a boring one most especially when I learned that Xavier had to attend his dad’s family dinner last minute. I was really hoping that he would be a great addition to the dining table and his presence would at least provide a timely and healthy conversation. My grandma’s no longer here with us and there’s without a doubt that me, my mom and my dad are all going to miss her riddled speeches and her five-minute monologues that kept the dinner alive. Those are special and it’s not because she’s always reading us to filth but she’s also expressing how she truly loved and cared for every single one of us and how we could become a better person and how she’s thankful for everything. My grandma was a very lovely human being and she had true depth in her. Surely, we all are going to miss that for the rest of our lives. Apart from that, my dad’s sister hasn’t reached out if she’s going to join us this yea