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Prose poem
My grandmother’s rings
A tradition is known as customs or beliefs that are passes from generation to generation. Each family has their very own traditions that they follow each year. Families either beginning their own traditions or follow the traditions that have been thought to them when they were kids and have been for a long time followed by past relatives. I never knew my grandfather, it has always been through the stories and memories that my grandmother has told me that I have got to know more about him. But one of the most remarkable stories that had shown me the love that my grandmother and grandfather had is through the rings that my grandmother has kept and has never gone a day by without wearing. Those rings aren’t the typical rings with a diamond on them, they are round ring with a color line representing the year they had reached together. Each ring represents the amount of 10 years they had been together and have gone by. As known every amount of year in a marriage has a representation like for example 20 years is represented in platinum which means strong and enduring. For their 40 years of marriage my grandmother has kept by her side 4 rings, always remembering the love of her life and every single moment they had together. As years passed their first 10 years came by. This year is commonly known to be represented by the diamond or the color blue, which represent marriage durably and beauty, like a diamond. Because of this, representing this durability and beauty, a ring with a blue line was gifted to my grandmother. By the year 1970, their 20-year anniversary came and it was followed by the same kind of ring, representing with an emerald green line their strong and enduring love. And so their love kept being part of them, growing each day stronger with their sons and daughters by them sides and soon time passed and they had reached the 30th anniversary. Along came a green lined ring. As following the tradition that 40 years before my grandfather had started, a ruby red lined ring was given to my grandmother.
And since that day the rings that were given to my grandmother, she has kept them by her side, remembering my grandfather every day. And now that her sons and daughter has grown and form their own families, she decided that the tradition should be follow by one of her grandsons. And because this, she has gifted the 4 rings to my brother for when he marries he can give his wife on each 10 years that passed the rings, for them to remember the love they have for each other and as well continue the tradition that my grandfather once started.
