1213This was said to her about 10 years ago, by her grandfather, to whom she was very close. She said she wouldn’t know what to do if he were to die, and this SOTM was his response.

She says that he told her death is “a part of life, it’s something that you have to deal with but just because that person’s dead doesn’t mean that you have to stop what you’re doing”. About a year after this conversation, her grandfather passed away, but she still took his advice.

She explains more in her audio clip Taken in a bar in Orchard Street, New York.