Kynnedy and Her Grandmother

by Dennis Jacobs

I want Kynnedy to know how she’s so much like her grandmother. Kynnedy has the same personality as her grandmother.

Everywhere Kim went, people fell in love with her. Everywhere Kynnedy goes, they fall in love with her. It just amazes me that she’s so much like Kim.

Kynnedy never met a stranger and Kim never met a stranger. Everywhere we’d go, Kim would talk to someone like she’d known them for years. Kynnedy is the same way. Everybody in her class knows her. Everybody has to say goodbye to her when she leaves.

Kynnedy is very good with her hands like her grandmother was.

Kynnedy likes watching TV like her grandmother. Kim liked Lifetime. We had to stop her from watching soap operas. She would get into it. Kynnedy watches TV like that too. Kynnedy will sit by the TV fixated. Once she gets fixated on the TV, you’ve got to wave and holler to get her attention.

Kynnedy is learning different types of music. She likes Michael Jackson and Duran Duran. She’s starting to get into Dave Matthews. She’s starting to like a lot of different stuff now, and I like that. I don’t want her to just be stuck on hip hop because today’s hip hop isn’t like when I was coming up.

Just like her grandmother, she hears different words and she sings them. Her grandmother was like that. The other day I was playing Duran Duran’s “Girls on Film” and she said, “I like that.” Later in the car she started singing “Cars Are Blue.” Her grandmother was exactly the same way. I remember I was playing Michael Jackson’s “Human Nature,” and Kim sang “Light Bright.”

And if Kynnedy has a song she likes, she wants to listen to it again and again and again. Her grandmother was the same way. She would play a song 20 times, over and over and over. If I play a song and Kynnedy likes it, she says, “Again.”

I want Kynnedy to know how much her grandmother loved her. Dialysis takes a lot out of you, but whenever Kim got home from dialysis, she’d say, “Where is that baby?!”