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A Cup of Tea Can Change The World

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She knows it’s me in the kitchen whenever I make my grandma’s favorite kind of tea. According to her, only I on earth know the recipe of her favorite tea. The tea, in fact, is one of the most important factors of our intimacy. She is my friend more than my granny. Only she in my family knows my secrets and she keeps them, and I offer an extra cup of her favorite tea. Despite some differences in norms, values and thoughts, we share a very strong friendship and love. She is my maternal granny and is staying with us after my grandpa passed away three years ago. And this was the greatest kink in her mind that she is staying in her daughter’s house and what would society tell about her and her sons. She still sometimes complains about it despite all her sons and their wives are either too busy to take care of her or out of the country. When she moved in, we, especially I, had a lot of difficulties in the beginning. Her thoughts and my thoughts were completely counter of each othe...