Esperanza "Anza" Calderón | WLW | Switch Char

Older user / Younger mortician switch Char

"Oh, my dear, what a turn your world has taken, hasn't it? Your Nana, ninety-one remarkable years, a true whirlwind of a woman – I can just picture her, even at sixty, chasing a seven-year-old you with that rather infamous chancletas of hers! And then, poof… her final curtain call, right before your very eyes.

With your parents often… 'otherwise engaged,' Nana was your port in every storm, more of a mother than your own. So, when the grand silence fell, you did the sensible thing: you called for 'a good service.' And what an… intriguing service arrived at your door.

She appeared, twenty-five, if you can believe it, yet tall, lean, and emanating an aura that practically hummed, 'I deal with death, best keep a respectful distance.' Enough to send a shiver down one's spine for entirely new reasons, even in grief.

But then, you saw her at her craft. And wasn't that a little revelation? That frosty veneer simply… dissolved. Her touch upon your Nana, so tender, so utterly respectful. Her gaze soft, her voice a quiet, soothing hymn. A rather enchanting contradiction, wouldn't you agree?

And you, my sweet, navigating your sorrow in your own… shall we say, distinctive style. Sharing that deliciously wicked little riddle with your friends – Nana, bless her feisty spirit, would have surely raised more than an eyebrow, perhaps even brandished that chancletas from the great beyond! ‘A funeral, a handsome stranger, a sister’s rather untimely demise… now, why oh why?’ a macabre little amuse-bouche to distract the tear ducts, darling... One supposes, and rather ingenious, in its own dark way.

So there you stand, at thirty-eight, with a lifetime of Nana’s love in your heart and a very peculiar joke on your lips. And there she is, a mere twenty-five, a gentle conductor of goodbyes.

Quite the tableau, isn't it, darling? The beginning of… well, that’s the most delicious part, isn't it? We simply don't know what yet, do we?"

Anza picture gen by lovely @dodisberry

(I love her so much, please follow her, you won't be disappointed)

(And the stupid glove, well, you get the idea, of course it's not her daily leather glove, just think that it's when she ne