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Eulogy Interview

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The sunset awaits outside the window and winter dawns upon me as I sit in my kitchen on a high stool, setting up my laptop. A pot of flowers sits outside the patio door, bowing their heads due to the cold.I am thankful I am not outside, for the kitchen is peaceful, illuminated with soft light and warm. A pan sits on the stove, and the coffee pot huffs steam. Once I get everything set up, my mom comes to join me on the high barstools. Genuinely, I see my mom as old some days but her best features: wisdom, kindness, and love, show through her wrinkles.Physically, I see my mom as the shorter type, not fat but not skinny but healthy, and tan with brown hair that has blonde highlights in it. Today, I’m interviewing my mom, Paula Krock, because she …show more content…

I do know a lot about my mom’s childhood and background, but I know little about her greatest challenges and for me it was interesting to ask the question: “How did you overcome your greatest challenge from childhood to adulthood?” It took her a few minutes to comb through her thoughts, at the time she was wearing a purple blouse and dark blue jeans with a silver necklace. She raised the mug to her rosy lips and speaks softly, “Biggest Challenge: to trust people, to learn to trust people, I hadn’t had a lot of adults in my life that I could rely on or trust as I grew older I realized I had trouble trusting people. I overcame this challenge by learning to forgive and realizing that we all make mistakes.” This trait could possibly be associated with independence, considering how independent my mom was as a child. It made it difficult for her to trust people without a lot of strong relationships built on trust, besides her brother and sister. But once my mom got to college, she found lasting friendships built on trust and mutual respect. My mom loved college, just “stepping onto a college campus makes me want to go back”. Obviously, if you want to go back to college it must have impacted you in some way, shape or form. “College had a huge impact, not because of the academics but because of the community, I became active in a Christian group on campus which became foundational to who I am today.” My mom has always been a strong believer of the Christian faith and college helped strengthen her faith and build relationships that had similar values to hers. My mom loves being involved in a community and helping others, possibly because of her childhood experiences caring for her brother and sister. My mom has set a good example for me of how to be kind, loving and hardworking even through difficult

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