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Grandfather pipe (Alejandro)
Alejandro Azcárraga
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Grandfather Pipe:
Something in my daily basis when I am in Mexico City, visiting my grandfather and seeing him with his black suite, moustache, a smile in his face but never missing a moment without his own personificated smoking pipe. I laughed when I saw him in the worst moments to have a tobacco, having a tobacco. I cried the time they without any surprise, told me when they detected mouth cancer to my grandfather, and I repeat, without any surprise. There was something special or different about this pipe, it was not like all the others. I don’t know why, I never noticed that it had a different figure in relation to other smoking pipes, but I am almost certain that I saw that pipe in a different way because of it’s black shinny color, and the golden classic mouthpiece. I am almost sure there was something different in those special colors and textures combination. It was like taking a trip to a Chicago Jazz bar every time I saw that old pipe, imagining me in the middle of the bar, just listening and watching every single move of that piano man playing his black shinny piano with it’s golden classic legs. Every time I saw my grandfather he was holding his pipe, almost every time in the same position, almost every time in the same place, just a big difference in the background music. The music sometimes changed my way of thinking about this dangerous and surely not recommendable object. Sometimes I saw my grandfather with his pipe (Frank Sinatra in the background music) and I thought that he did not have any trouble in life. Other times, I saw him with his same pipe (Frankie Valli and The Four Season in the background music) and I could imagine him in his old-disco age season with that same shinny black pipe. This is not just an item, it is a symbol. A symbol that can represent a lot of different special things and activities that my grandfather always loved to do. It is a representation of the whole family and it was present in almost all the family convocations. You can see the black shinny pipe and think, this is just a very common pipe. It is not, the more I talk and remember about that pipe, the closer I feel to my grandfather.
