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IMA GONNA KISS YOU!!

On Saturday I went to visit my friend at the new bakery she is working at.  While I was there visiting, a little, teeny tiny, old old old lady came in with her daughter. She was as spry as the day is long.  

She came in and saw me and threw her hands out and shouted: "I KNOW YOU!".  

Her daughter said "No, momma, you do NOT  know her!" 

I asked the little tiny lady where she was from and she said (in a thick accent) "POLSKA!"  

And then she sat with me at my little table and proceeded to tell me stories about coming to America from Poland when she was 30 years old with her little daughter on a big ship.....How frightened she was, how big the ship was, how she cried at leaving her 7 brothers and sisters, how she met her second husband and had her second daughter.  How her daughter could understand polish from the crib.  How she loved to go dancing.  How she loved to sing.

A great portion of these stories were in broken english and fluent polish, which her daughter patiently translated.  The little lady was 92 years old.  She constantly patted her daughter and spoke to her in polish, asking her to tell me something or another.  Then she would lay her head on her daughter's arm and smile at me.  She was SO ADORABLE.

And when she had to leave I told her how lovely it was to meet her and talk with her and she looked at me and threw out her arms and shouted "I'MA GONNA KISS YOU!".  And she did, she hugged me and kissed my cheek like I was her own granddaughter.  

And you know, for that day, for that hour, for that moment in time,  I WAS her granddaughter.  It was one of the sweetest hours of my life.