Holiday celebrations can be a through line in life.

Every year they bring you a little reminder of your past.

That's how it is for Joanne Molinaro

in Aguora Hills, California.

I generally cannot think of Lunar New Year

without remembering the number of times

we would go to my grandmother's home.

As a kid, she'd complain.

It was like a tiny small apartment

that was always extremely hot.

And crowded with fake Christmas trees.

She had a bunch of those all over

and then dried fruit and fish everywhere.

It was kind of a hodgepodge of random things.

But when she remembers it now,

she thinks of the grandmother she misses.

She cherishes her memories of those visits.

She had one of those Korean style tables

which is right on the floor

and she'd have these bamboo mats rolled out for all of us.

And we'd show up dressed to the nines in our handbooks

which is traditional Korean dress, costume.

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