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    I Love My Grandma
    I Love My Grandma
    I Love My Grandma
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    I Love My Grandma

    By Cesar Perez

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    Emma Preston is an Iraq war veteran. She is a straight arrow with a no-nonsense approach to life. When she finds out that her grandson in being bullied at school and nobody is doing anything about it, she decides to help him with her own personal style. Some people will like her, some will not.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCesar Perez
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781370782857
    I Love My Grandma
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    Cesar Perez

    Born and raised in Mexico City, moved to Los Angeles California to continue his studies of English and Literature."I love my grandma" is about a character that was inspired by a woman he met and who made such an impression on him that he decided to make it his first novel.He is keeping himself busy with his second work. Stay tuned.?

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      I Love My Grandma - Cesar Perez

      I LOVE MY GRANDMA

      GET READY FOR TOUGH LOVE

      A SHORT STORY

      CESAR H. PEREZ

      Copyright © 2018 Cesar H. Perez

      All rights reserved.

      Distributed by Smashwords

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this ebook with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      CONTENTS

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Chapter Thirteen

      Chapter Fourteen

      Chapter Fifteen

      Chapter Sixteen

      Chapter Seventeen

      Chapter Eighteen

      Chapter Nineteen

      Chapter Twenty

      Chapter Twenty-One

      Chapter Twenty-Two

      CHAPTER ONE

      MORNING FRESH AIR

      Beautiful sunrise. A woman is jogging in the street. She is fit and strong, well defined muscles. Late forties. Wears a baseball cap. SF GIANTS. Wears shades. She’s running with a beautiful, leashed dog, a Husky.

      As she approaches a crossing street, she waits for the green light to continue her morning routine.

      A person in a wheelchair is on the other side of the street waiting to cross.

      There is a truck that just stopped beyond the line for pedestrians to pass. The green light appears now.

      The woman proceeds to cross and so the person in his wheelchair. She realizes that the truck is blocking both ways.

      As she gets closer, she signals to the driver to back off a few feet, he acknowledges her request and backs off, now they can cross.

      As they do so, the man in his wheelchair says to her:

      Thanks Emma.

      You’re welcome Harry. she replies.

      As she continues her morning exercise, she waves and greets people who know her in her neighborhood.

      BURNING CALORIES AT HOME

      Emma takes the husky to the backyard, gets it a bowl of food.

      She has her own small gym at home. She starts to work out by jumping rope, punching and kicking the bag, push-ups, pull-ups.

      Session is over for today. Gets to the shower.

      There are some special photos in the wall of the gym.

      Back in the day when she was in the Special Forces.

      During training, sharpshooting, parachuting, bear hand fighting, underwater exercises of resilience and many more…a real tough cookie.

      Done with the shower.

      She wears jeans, black belt, black shoes, wears a small amount of make-up.

      In the driveway there’s a bike and when she turns it on the throttle of the motor is unequivocal…It’s a powerful Harley Davidson.

      She proceeds to ride it outside the driveway.

      Her destination is Church. For a special occasion.

      CHURCH

      The church is full. The environment feels somber.

      The occasion is to remember a member of the community who just passed away from lung cancer.

      His casket is in the front. In the first row is his widow and their two children.

      The Father is talking to the congregation about difficult times, hardship and how they as a community can help each other is such times.

      Two kids are collecting money with their baskets, as they return to the front, the Father looks at the baskets in dismay, they are almost empty. His face says it all.

      There’s a woman who’s sitting in the front row and just saw what happened and is not happy.

      She gets up, talks to the Father for a moment and takes the microphone from him.

      "Good morning, How’s everyone?

      good? Well I’m glad, because I’m not okay…" she continues.

      "And you could ask yourselves, why in the world is this woman not okay?

      Well, you see I do have a problem here, our dear Father has talked to us about how we can help each other in difficult times and how we praise ourselves as a close community in which we feel proud of belonging to because we feel the support of our friends and neighbors when we are in need…and what do we do?

      This is what we do…" (showing the almost empty baskets to the crowd.)

      Now this is unacceptable…so please I am asking you to help our sister here and her children…but in order to have credibility I have always believed that you just can’t talk the talk, you have to walk the walk.

      (getting a 20 dollar bill from her pocket and putting it in the basket.

      See I did my part, now you have to do yours…

      (signaling to the kids to go back with their baskets.)

      And the amount of money that you contribute is not relevant, what is relevant however is that you give whatever you can give, what you can give from the bottom of your heart…That’s what really matters…

      The kids are collecting money now. Husbands, wives, teens, everybody is giving now.

      The kids return to the front row with the baskets…full.

      The Father is smiling now.

      The woman is smiling now.

      Thank You Emma. Says the Father.

      You’re welcome Father. Replies Emma.

      "You see…this is the kind of difference that all of us can make when we are together…when we decide to help, to change, to work for a

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