I kissed my grandmother on the way out the kitchen door. We’ve done that since I was eight years old. We also say good-bye, just in case we never see each other again. It’s been like that for almost thirty years, ever since Nana Mama first took me in and decided she could make something of me. She made a homicide detective, with a doctorate in psychology, who works and lives in the ghettos of Washington, D.C.
There is more than one hero in the Cross family. Regina Cross Hope, the beloved grandmother Alex calls “Nana Mama,” is as tough as she is caring. Every family has a keeper of stories, and in the Cross house that person is Nana Mama.
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