Our family has taken turns living in a house that my great-grandmother owns. My grandma lived there with all of my siblings and I and my parents. She took our family under her wings. My grandma started living in a nursing home so my mom, step-dad, brother and I took over the home. It was great, we didn't have to change schools or move to an unfamiliar neighborhood. The address to this family home is 130 Red Oak Drive, Joplin Missouri. My family and I moved homes during about the beginning of the New school year. Nobody else in our family had bought the home yet and others were starting to. Then, my uncle bought it for him and his children and girlfirend. We call this home "Grandma's Nest" because it's the home that we are used to and grandma helped raise us there. My grandmother passed away last year and our family just started falling apart, she was the one who kept it together. My uncle still lives there with his children and his girlfriend stays the night once in a while. When my family goes to Joplin, we visit our other family and sometimes my brother Clark and I will spend the night at my uncles house and spend time with our cousins. Often, when we go over there I hear things. A faded, clasped voice of my grandmother. This voice is very gentle and never discomforts me, it's always like before. I've never seen the afterlife version of my grandmother but I am certain that she is there with our family. I never can make out what exactly it is that she must be saying but I know her presence is there with me. Grandma's nest is my favorite hideaway spot because I'm free when I go there. Its like when I'm there, all the demons inside of me run away and I feel this kind of power and I feel invincible and for once, I know that good things do happen.
