Write about someone in your family who is memorable for some reason. Maybe start this remembrance with “When I was born … ” or “I’ll never forget …”
My grandmother has been smoking since my father can remember. She smokes packs and packs of cigarettes a day. Possibly because of this, she has had collapsed lungs, breast cancer, lung cancer, and she has beat them all. This raises the question for me: is she strong, or is she weak? She is strong because she has beat cancer twice, something many people never do. Yet, she is extremely weak because she had cancer and yet refused to stop smoking. The power the cigarettes have over her mind is so intense that even a life threatening, hurtful disease. I've wrestled with this question for much of my life, and therefore she is memorable to me.
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