My object is my great grandmother's plant. It is important to me and my family because it's over 60 years old and it's been passed down for three generations, my grandfather, my mom and then me. My great grandmother, Nora McGloin, got it on her 80th birthday in 1962. It's a split leaf philodendron. The plant now lives out on long island where we have a house. It's also 6 feet tall.      The main reason I picked this plant is because it's very important to my family. It's been passed down for three generations, that's sixty years! Every time me and my family head out to Long Island we make sure it's watered and it's in the sun. And every time we go there and water it it makes me feel closer to my great grandmother.      A question I would love to ask my great grandmother is who she got it from. We don't even know what shop it was from. We only know that it was from a friend for her 80th birthday. The plant looks like a tree. It's so big it has a lot of different leafs coming out of the stem; it looks like an overgrown normal plant. It also looks like swiss cheese with the holes in the leaves. Something I find interesting is basically any item you have in your home does have a story behind it. Before I asked my grandmother and my mom I didn't know that this plant was my  great grandmothers it's amazing how special some things can be and we don't even know they are. All in all I loved this project. I loved getting to know my great grandmother more and this plant.

– JB

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