My Grandma Is Telling Me From the Beyond To Write My Book

I haven’t called her in six years.

Camille Beredjick

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A sepia-toned photograph of a young woman and her son kneeling before some pigeons, preparing to feed them
My grandma (young, lovely) and my dad (a baby, really) feeding the pigeons in the 60s or early 70s.

My wife and I got tattoos at a new-to-us shop a couple weeks ago. Next to us in the back were two college-age young women, each getting a tattoo of a butterfly with the year “1943” written down its body. Later we asked each other: did you see them? What could that have meant?

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Camille Beredjick

Writer in Chicago: LGBTQ issues, mental health, family, relationships, & more