"Grandmother, put on a little lip gloss. You never know who you will meet." I said as my recently widowed grandmother, Lillian and I were about to venture out of the air-conditioned Miami Beach condo and into the Florida sun.

Echoing my words back to me, my grandmother followed my advice.

The exchange was one of those profound ones between a grandmother and her young granddaughter. Oh, I'm sure I didn't feel so young at the time. Afterall I was the ripe old age of about 15, that age when lip gloss seems so important.