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My Grandmother Covered the Hallway Mirror with an Old Cloth for 10 Years: When I Saw What Was Underneath, I Froze in Shock
Every Saturday I went to my grandmother's the same way, almost ritually: three stops by minibus, then through the yard, past the playground and a series of garages with peeling, creaking gates, all the way to an old Khrushchev-era building, whose cracked facade betrayed its age. Ground floor, second door on the left. The doorbell hadn't worked for years, so I knocked three times - as we had agreed long ago.
TL;DR
- A grandmother covered a hallway mirror for 10 years with a cloth she embroidered.
- The author discovered there was no mirror behind the cloth, only a wall.
- The grandmother removed the mirror after her husband's death because she couldn't bear to see her own reflection without him.
- The cloth served as a 'boundary' between her past and present.
- The family replaced the covered space with a large photograph of the grandparents.
- The story explores themes of grief, memory, and enduring love.