Do Anything To Get A Hug

"Caramba! Cobra com corpo de fogo!" (Wow! Snake with a body of fire) My grandmother shouted from far away.

I was on my way back from my grandfather's place, I just ran as quickly as I can to my grandmother and hugged her tight.

I had phobias of both snakes and fire and ghostly stuff... My grandmother will usually use them as a threat so that I had a reason to hug her.

"Avó!" (Grandma!) I shouted at my grandmother nearly crying. My grandmother will just hug me tight and laugh.

That was one little scene that will pop into my mind as a sweet memory with my grandmother.

My grandmother will make-up monster hybrids made out of my phobia other than this "famous" fire-snake, there were snort-spider, dead-tree-dog, later when I was older spooky tall-man in suit, zombie-mailman, etc... (sound like some ghosts from ghost busters? I think she got the idea from the show too lol.)

My grandmother died when I turned teenager. I did not go to her funeral because I am afraid of dead bodies too. How ironic that she became one of my phobias, dead body and lost the chance for me to hug her... I thought during that period of my time. Yes, I did have a dream and my grandmother was there but I am not going to go deep with that, in the dream my grandmother shouted "Caramba! Homem morto com membros quebrados!" (Wow! Dead men with broken limbs!) as usual I will run up to her and hug her but I stopped right in front of her."espera... Um homem morto? Eu pensei que você tinha ido embora, avó?" (wait... A dead man? I thought you are gone, grandmother?) she smiled with a kind look and gently hugged me in a warm way. And that was it.

The next day I remember that my family got a call from the grave dealer, back in those days cremation was not that popular. The dealer came to us and said that they had to sell part of the grave yard. (yes, I was told that always will happen back in those days) I had a tingly feeling that I had to go to my grandmother's grave. At the end we needed to dig up my grandmother and cremate her.

Yes, I hold my fear and saw the whole scene of digging up her grave and sending her to the crematorium place. I followed the whole time and saw my grandmother for the last time. She was as if in her deep sleep, a tear lingered on my face and I finally could say my final good bye to her.

Later that time what I remember is that the graveyard literally just shrank its size into half, many unknown graves and graves with nobody to claim were left destroyed... This time my grandmother's lie (dead men with broken limbs) kind of became real and I nearly missed a chance to say my final good bye.

I know this is more of a dream than an experience but if considering this as an experience with my grandmother, do you think that she knew that the graveyard was going to be sold?

I do not know that if this will be posted but I wish I could share this little memory of mine with all.