At 87, my flirty, ____ grandma ____ away with ____. What a ____ model! When my grandad died in 2007, we all worried about my grandma. But she had not yet finished eating at the table of life – indeed, she ____ our expectations and entered her Michelin-star era. At 87, she is now a ____ WhatsApp user, is fully ____ in emoji and calls the actor Regé-Jean Page her “young boyfriend”. Her widowed heartbreak was ____ felt, but my sister calls her a sunflower ____ ____ reason: bright petals, ____ in the centre. ____ of iron. She also has a ____ ____ the dramatic, preferring to threaten us with her mortality – “I hope I’m still here when you graduate” – than to actually “____ the bucket” (her favoured euphemism). But she is consistent: my cousin, on a beach holiday, was ____ warned (via a text in all ____) that “THE SEA IS A GOOD SERVANT BUT A BAD MASTER”. And she has no ____ about making her ____ known: when a suit-and-briefcase type pushed her out the way to get on the bus, she ____ her teeth and told him that if he pushed her again she would “clap yuh wi’ me stick”. Only a 4ft pensioner could ____ away with threatening ____, but Grandma Sylvia gets ____ with everything now. She ____ her eyes at the Marks & Spencer staff and discounts appear. When she arrived in London as a trainee nurse in 1962, on her 27th birthday, she was the height of professionalism; now, as a patient, she ____ with every male medic she ____. Because she grew up with one pair of shoes in 1930s Jamaica, 2022 Grandma refuses to leave the house unless ____ ____ a silk blouse, matching silk scarf and rose-gold Skechers – because “I might see someone I know”. And she always does. An ____ 40-minute round trip takes two hours as she is ____ like the prom ____ of Clapham. She is an ____ ____ girl – and I can only ____ to be the same.

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