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Photo by  William Krause  on  Unsplash Published in: https://storymirror.com/read/story/english/nfu2azyy/grammy/detail Kia’s BFF was her neighbour, Violet. Kia was a sprightly six to Violet’ s sixty-five.  Kia struggled for a while with the name Violet. Wallet, Wallet, sh e would squeal until she conveniently nicknamed Wallet “Grammy” after the Grammy awards show she saw her parents watching on television. Her Mamma was ecstatic over someone called Yo Yo Ma at the awards show. Kia watched in round eyed wonder because it looked like Yo Yo Ma was playing an outsized violin and by holding it upside down! “That’s not a violin honey, that’s a C-E-L-L-O”, spelled out Kia’s Mamma taking the opportunity to teach her a new spelling.  “C-E-L-L-O……sell-O”, shouted Kia.  “Chell – O not Sell – O, my love” corrected Mamma. Mamma had not said C-E-L-E-R-Y, chellery. But never mind Mamma, she was always saying opposite things!  “Chell-O makes me fe...