6 Things That Happened After Wearing Something My Grandma Gave Me


I've been wearing mine for seven months. Here's what nobody tells you.

1) I get asked about my necklace almost everyday


Not "that's cute, where did you get it". More like people notice that I never take it off and eventually they ask why. My friends. My teachers. The girl who sits next to me in bio.


The simple answer is: Grammy gave it to me.


It's a pendant that transforms. From four hearts combining to form a lucky clover. You can change it depending on what you need that day. Heart when you need love, clover when you need courage. The pieces are magnetic so they click back and forth. Grammy got mine at www.hello-arlo.com

2) I can't stop clicking it


The click is the part that gets me. Once I start clicking it, I can't stop. It turns into this little ritual: pick a side, think about her for a second, go to school. That's it. I do it every morning now without even thinking about it. My hands just find it.

3) I realized grammy thought she was disappearing from our lives


Before this necklace, I loved Grammy. Obviously. But I loved her the way you love someone you see at holidays.


She sent money for every birthday and Christmas. Venmo. Amazon gift cards. And I would just text her a quick thank you every single time.


I thought that's what she wanted. I thought she was the kind of grandma who didn't do "stuff." No fuss. Just practical. That was just Grammy.


I found out way later that she used to sit there after my texts thinking she was disappearing from our lives.

4) I felt something I'd never felt from a Venmo notification


I don't really know how to explain what it's like putting on something she held in her hands and picked out for you. Not money she sent without thinking. Not a gift card she bought in thirty seconds. An actual thing she went online and found and thought about.


The first time I held it against my chest I felt something I'd never felt from a Venmo notification. I felt her. Not in a mystical way. Just like she'd thought about me longer than four seconds for the first time in years.

5) I FaceTime her now after things that matter


I clicked to clover before my driving test and called her from the parking lot when I passed. I wore it on hearts the day my friend moved away and I texted Grammy at midnight just to say I was sad, because she's the only person who wouldn't tell me to get over it.


We talk more now than we have in years. Real conversations. She knows about my friends, about the boy I like, about the panic attack I had before my presentation. She knows more about my life than most of my friends do.

6) I'm closer to Grammy than ever before


I know what some people are going to say. "It's just a necklace." It's not though.


It's why Grammy went from being a Venmo notification to being the first person I call. For everything. Good stuff, bad stuff. She's just the person now.


It's why four girls in my family wear the same pendant every day and text the same woman from all over and she saves every single photo. It's why Grammy doesn't feel invisible anymore.


She told my mom last week: "I should have done this years ago. I wasted years being afraid of getting it wrong."

That all happened because she gave us something real instead of money.


Before these necklaces I loved Grammy from far away. Holidays and birthdays and thumbs up emojis. Now she knows about my friends. She knows things I can't tell anyone else. She knows more about my life than most of my friends do.


Grammy got ours from a place called Hello Arlo at www.hello-arlo.com


If you're a granddaughter, send this to your grandmother. She's not going to find it on her own.


If you're a grandmother, she'll wear it. I promise. She'd trade every dollar you ever sent for one thing she could hold at 2 AM and feel like you're there. The only thing Grammy got wrong was waiting.


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