Role Model

I admire many people in my life, but the one I choose to discuss is my Grandmother. She is my role model for numerous reasons. I admire her survival skills the most. She was forced to quit school in the fourth grade to care for her seven other siblings and to work in the cotton fields to help her father support the family. At 13 she moved to Florida to work in the orange groves until she saved enough money to send back to Alabama to move her parents and sibilings to Florida. She survived an abusive relationship with her first husband. She soon became friends with a woman named Kaye Byrd. He relationship with this woman blossomed into a "sisterhood". The two of them were discriminated upon because my grandmother was white and Kaye was black. They were attacked physically while working in New Orleans and through it all they remained friends because both women saw past what so many could not. They are both in their 70's and still have the strong love for each other that cemented their relationship. She is just a remarkable woman that has taught me many valuable lessons in life that I cherish and honor. She is a true surviver and that is what I love her most for.