My grandmother called me twice yesterday when she heard that I was left home alone because my dad was away on a business trip and my mom was working. Yes, I am housebound for a bit but not bedbound.<\/p>\n
\\”Make sure you lock the doors!\\” she warned me, standing in the middle of a kitchen in full-on suburbia.<\/p>\n
\\”Did you eat it dinner?\\” she asked. I replied that it was only 6 and that I didn\\’t really have an appetite.<\/p>\n
\\”How are you?!\\” she asked.<\/p>\n
\\”It\\’s hot,\\” all I could muster about my current well-being in the 90+ degree heat in my broken Chinese. \\”I am fine. I am 24 years old!\\”<\/p>\n
\\”Ok…\\” she sounded reluctant. Then told me to close all the windows and doors, lock them. I agreed, knowing she still saw me as a kid. She said to take care of myself. And I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My grandmother called me twice yesterday when she heard that I was left home alone because my dad was away on a business trip and my mom was working. Yes, I am housebound for a bit but not bedbound. \\”Make … Continue reading