AS Whisper from the Past

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Created for this month's journlaing challenge.

This is a photo of my great grandmother Anna in 1912 as a young girl who doesn't know what is to come. Her mother had instructed her not to smile and she obediently kept her face stern. She would later recall, that this was the moment she accepted that sometimes one must do what is asked of them - a belief she carried through more than eight decades of the life that followed. It was this silent acceptance that kept her alive during World War One. And she is largely credited with keeping all her family from starvation during World War Two because, remembering the horrors of her youth, she started stockpiling and rationing food long before shortages began.

I have always admired that about her—the quiet foresight with which she planned for the worst, and the unwavering resolve to do everything in her power to ward it off. Even when her caution was deemed excessive by those around her.

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