LIFE STORY

Hard Experiences Have Made Her Softer: My 95-year-old Grandmother-in-law

I call her Api

My grandmother-in-law making fire (Pic by Author)

They made her walk barefoot on shattered glasses. It was during the Great Wall era in China when her husband was wanted by the communist authorities. They couldn’t find him so they forced her to tell them his whereabouts at that moment. She didn’t know. Which is why she was…