What do you remember of your own grandparent or another elderly person of importance to your family?

I really don’t remember too much about my grandmothers because they both had passed a little while after I was born. The only time I have seen them was in a picture my mother or father had shown me so that’s like the only way I could have seen them but I just have the feeling that they’re with me more then I think they are. My grandfather on my mother side I had saw him like one time when I was 13 years old I guess he wanted to see his grandson one last time before he went to a better place. I don’t know why my mother didn’t want me and my sisters to meet him but I guess she was embarrass of the life style he lived because he was a homosexual but I don’t think that was a good reason to keep us away from him. My mother’s dad gave me his old harmonica which I thought was nice of him but as soon as we left his house my mother took the harmonica out of my hand and threw it away. I was mad because it was my first time seeing him and that was the only thing he gave me. Like in 6 months he passed away and I don’t know or don’t hear about his funeral so I really was upset so I told myself that I will never forget him . My grandfather on my father side I show him more than my mother’s dad which I thought was a good thing because it made me feel closer to him I would go visit him at the retirement home in East St .Louis we would talk about what ever came to my mind . I and my dad’s father couldn’t really do anything physical because he had a number of strokes. So that’s why I don’t stay mad at a person for a long time because like people say “one day you here and the next day you gone”.