Diane Brown

DIANE BROWN is completing a Ph.D. in French literature at Harvard Uni￾versity.

Touching the Hem

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 1

My grandma died three years ago. What I have of her now is a collection of odds and ends of memories. I have a few physical reminders: her senior class ring from Jordan High School, an old can full of buttons, and a photo of the two of us at my college graduation. The memories are gradually turning into anecdotes that I tell myself over and over.

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