When I turned 18, my grandmother gave me a red cardigan she had knitted by hand. She did not have much money, so I knew the yarn and time she had spent on it were probably all she could afford. Still, I was young and more interested in fashionable clothes. I thanked her without much enthusiasm, folded the cardigan, and placed it in the back of my closet.
She passed away only a few weeks later.
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