Pick Me Up!

TOUGH LOVE

Taking a seat, I quickly tucked into my canteen lunch.

‘Is that nice?’ I asked my granddaughter, Tiara, now 15.

‘Lovely, thanks Granny,’ she smiled back at me.

Living in Georgia, Atlanta, I would regularly go for lunch at her high school.

When she was a junior, she would run up to me and give me a huge hug.

As she got older, she didn’t do that as much, but we still enjoyed our lunch dates every month.

Or at least, that’s what I thought, until one day, that all came crashing down.

‘Granny, I don’t think you should come for lunch today,’ she told me quietly down the phone. ‘I don’t want to get into

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