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Senior Senior David Hart

The Gift of a

Grandfather

by Sarah Cheatham

y grandfather, David Hart,
has given me many gifts
Mover the years. Every time
he traveled to Costa Rica, he would
bring back small trinkets for me and
my brother. On one of my birthdays,
he gave me a hundred dollars which
I thought would allow me to buy
everything my heart desired. Granted,
I was only seven. However, now
that I am about to graduate high
school, I know that the monetary
and tangible gifts he has given me
over the years are not important
compared to the other gifts he has
imparted to me. I cannot thank my to my life. His encouragement has led afterwards, we watch some obscure
grandfather enough for giving me the me to reach for the stars in school and movie that is more hilarious than
gifts of stubbornness, compassion, and never back down when my ideas are cinematic. Even though we don’t
perseverance. being questioned. Every day, I try to talk about our feelings or delve into
live up to the standards that he set for philosophical conversations about
Although most people might think me as a young girl by being stubborn the current day and age, my favorite
stubbornness is a bad thing, my in the things I believe in and working part of the night is talking to my
grandfather has taught me that being hard to achieve my goals. grandfather. It is true that all Hart
stubborn can be one of the most family members carry the signature
beneficial skills I possess. Throughout Similarly, my grandfather also taught family trait, but my grandfather and
my life, my grandfather has told me me how to be compassionate. My I don’t need to explicitly say that
that I can be and do whatever I set my dad likes to joke that the Hart family, we love each other. My grandfather
mind to if I work hard enough. When my grandfather’s side, never shows has taught me how to be a loving
I was little, I wholeheartedly believed emotion - that it is our signature and compassionate person without
that if I wanted to be a horse jockey Hart family trait. Although it may ever telling me the secret. Instead, he
when I grew up, even though I was be true that you will rarely see my shows me how just by being in his
allergic to horses and already quite grandfather shed a tear, he is one company. For this gift, I am eternally
tall, you better believe I was going of the most compassionate people I grateful.
to do everything in my power to get know. Every once in a while, I will
myself there. Although now I know I go over to my grandfather’s house The most precious gift my
will never be a jockey or a professional and have dinner with him, just the grandfather has given me is the gift
baseball player, I still apply this rule two of us. During dinner, we talk of perseverance. Three years ago, my
about nothing in particular, and then grandmother was diagnosed with

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