The Door Shut

Book excerpt: Eulie: “My grandma has lifted me high always. Yes, she’s taught me how to keep myself up, but I will tell you that it is difficult. Still, I have her friends holding me, and I feel her touch because it’s overwhelming. Yes, it overwhelms because I know that she hates seeing me labor as she labored, yet I know that she is happy seeing me with her friends. Do you see me Grandma? - Well, she’s silent at the moment because you don’t know our story. Yes, if you continue reading, you’ll see that doors shut, and others open. A door has even opened for her. As for me in this moment, I’m standing before another door, and I can tell you only that I am hoping that it opens to the world that she imagined for me. And if it doesn’t, I hope that I am in the world that she imagined me living in when the door shuts over my life.”