i swear i remember my grandmother and great grandmother singing. i have a memory of two old ladies in a living room with a wooden interior who were singing, and my parents say this sounds like them. the only thing about it is that the last time i saw them i was about 9 months old or so. and this seems a bit early to have a memory. i don't have any other memories from that time. my next one is from when i was around 3 and we went up north for my grandmother's funeral. i don't remember the funeral but i remember standing next to a pile of dead leaves, and we don't have that in florida so i know it must've been up north (most likely in new jersey). and this is the only time we went up north in between being 9 months old and about 5 years old, and i remember the trip when i was 5 quite clearly so i know it wasn't this time that the pile of leaves memory is from.
when i was 5 and we went up north we visited my granddad at his apartment in the bronx, and when i was outside his apartment building i saw a muslim lady in the full burka get-up, with only her eyes showing. this was the first time i ever saw anything like this, as there aren't that many muslims in south florida. at the time i was convinced she was a ninja. i told my mom about the ninja encounter and she was like that's nice, probably just thinking i had an overactive imagination. it wasn't until years later that i realized the ninja was actually just a muslim lady.
there was a similar incident in florida when i saw what i can only assume now was an armadillo outside our complex. i was obsessed with dinosaurs at the time due to seeing jurassic park and i was pretty sure i had seen a real dinosaur.
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