After we sealed up my maternal grandmother's ashes on that hot November day, I wondered what I actually knew about her, someone I'd only seen 6 times in my life. I thought about the category of grandmothers generally and how mine compared specifically. 

Nakhon Ratchasima, also known as Khorat, is one of the North Eastern provinces. It's the place where my grandmother was born, grew up as the youngest of

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