My 101-Year-Old Grandmother Hadn’t Left Bed in Two Years—Then She Came to My Daughter’s Birthday With a Locked Red Suitcase and Said, “Take Off Her Left Sock”

Small party.

Grandma attended by video because travel had become too hard.

Emma ran around wearing one sock.

Of course.

Grandma laughed.

“Put that child’s shoe on.”

I stared at her.

“You started this.”