“Kayi (My Grandfather) as a little boy sitting beside his parents at their home, 1953, South Kalimantan, Indonesia.
My grandfather loved his mother very much, and despite her petite appearance my great-grandmother was a fearless, outspoken woman in a society that expected her to be a ‘submissive, obedient’ wife. The man in the photo was my grandfather’s step-father, and my mother told me that he was “a very kind-hearted man” as evident through one story she told me:
One time he found out that my mother and her twin sister were reading the same novels everyday. Thus he sent large packs of books every month for them to read to the point that my grandfather had to build a private library in their house.
I will never forget these three. They all have special places in my heart. “
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