The Moth Radio Hour: Food, Glorious Food
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A Desecrated Grave and a Furious Honoring
The speaker recalls a breakfast conversation at the Cannes Film Festival where they express their love for Cannes and desire to live there year-round. After initial refusal, the speaker's uncle reluctantly agrees to take them to their grandmother's grave, which is rumored to be desecrated. To their surprise, they find an empty plot and the speaker decides to honor their grandmother by smoothing out the earth and spelling out her name with pebbles. Tension arises when the speaker discovers that their grandmother was buried five years after her death, raising questions about where she was during that time.
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