The Embrace
By: a.fradue@yahoo.com

i can remember it being around christmas time and i beleive it was the first christmas that me and my family had spent in my grandmother's house. my grandmother had passed away a few years before. it was very cold outside and we were standing out watching my stepdad put up the decorations. for some reason i began to think about how much i missed my grandmother and i began to feel very sad. all of a sudden there was this very strong wind, the weird thing about it was that being december the wind was very warm and pleasant. i felt an embrace so familiar and i looked over at my mom and before i could say anything she said to me "she's here".