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For the longest time, when I was a kid, I thought my grandmother\u2019s name was \u201cSito.\u201d Every time she\u2019d see me, she\u2019d throw her arms wide open and say \u201cDame un besito!\u201d I thought that meant come to Sito and for years I called her that. It actually means \u201cgive me a kiss!\u201d<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Grandma was always a little bit of a character but as she got older, she just didn\u2019t care really. She had no filter and said what she wanted, did what she wanted and unapologetically, told a little lie here or there.<\/div>\n
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I remember being a little embarrassed as a kid, when she would just talk to people, pinch their cheeks, and tell them they were pretty. Now, I find myself trying to do that (minus the cheek pinching) in an effort to be more connected to people.<\/div>\n
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What did she know then that we didn\u2019t?<\/div>\n
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Nothing I\u2019m sure but that didn\u2019t stop her from just dancing to her own beat every day. And she did! Grandma loved to dance and had this little jig she would do \u2013 mostly with the handsome boyfriends of my sisters. Yep, Grandma still head game in her 80s.<\/div>\n
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While she didn\u2019t really worry about herself, she kept a hawkeye on all of her grandkids. I remember her senility starting to get worse and she\u2019d go through a round of questions like clockwork every time she\u2019d see us. She would ask all the significant others the same question: \u201cwho do you belong to?\u201d That was her version of finding out who was with whom.<\/div>\n
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Grandma was not subtle about her opinions. If she thought something, she said it. She would always say: \u201cJesus doesn\u2019t want me and the devil thinks I talk too much.\u201d She was probably right and neither of them stood a chance against her.<\/div>\n
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She also had this not so subtle way of asking for things. She\u2019d pick up a picture or stuffed animal or anything she fancied at the moment, and she hold and caress it and lovingly declare: \u201cI would love this if it was mine.\u201d<\/div>\n
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OK grandma \u2013 we got it.<\/div>\n
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We\u2019d always have to pat her down and check her purse after every visit. Come to think of it, we had to check her purse pretty regularly to make sure there wasn\u2019t a surplus of silverware taken from various restaurants or sugar and cream packets poached from the free coffee at the grocery store.<\/div>\n
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She was all about the here and now and she was ready to go every day. Not one day would pass where her hair and make up weren\u2019t done. She always had her lipstick on because she wasn\u2019t fully dressed without it.<\/div>\n
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And she lived by her own code. When my mom had me, she was exhausted. Well, my grandmother took over and fed me oats and beer for the next several days so that my mom could have a break. (That actually explains a lot.)<\/div>\n
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She danced when she wanted. She pretended not to hear you when she wanted and she said what was on her mind.<\/div>\n
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And even towards the end, we knew she loved us, even if she couldn\u2019t always remember who we were or \u201cwho we belonged to.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Jesus, I apologize because I know she\u2019s talking your ears off. And I just know she\u2019s throwing her arms open to everyone she sees and saying \u201cDame un besito.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the longest time, when I was a kid, I thought my grandmother\u2019s name was \u201cSito.\u201d Every time she\u2019d see me, she\u2019d throw her arms wide open and say \u201cDame un besito!\u201d I thought that meant come to Sito and for years I called her that. It actually means \u201cgive me a kiss!\u201d Grandma was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,38,37],"tags":[40,41,42,43],"yoast_head":"\nDame Un Besito - Lisa Demmi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Every time she\u2019d see me, she\u2019d throw her arms wide open and say \u201cDame un besito!\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lisademmi.com\/dame-un-besito\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dame Un Besito - 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