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My grandmother's first cruise at 87

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My grandmother had never been on a cruise ship. She grew up in a small town in Oklahoma and had seen the ocean exactly twice. For her 87th birthday we booked a suite on Wonder of the Seas — the largest cruise ship in the world — because if you are going to show someone the ocean for the first time in decades, you might as well go big. She walked into the suite and went straight to the balcony. She stood there for twenty minutes without speaking. When she turned around she was crying. She said the ocean was bigger than she remembered. We spent seven days watching her experience everything for the first time — the buffet, the shows, the ports. She touched the ocean in Cozumel and laughed like a child. She passed away last spring. This cabin is where she remembered she was alive.

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