Janette Manrara
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I just went, okay, sure, wait for it.
He was so right.
Where do you keep these?
I probably should, shouldn't I?
Maybe when I fully, fully retire from dancing, I'll put them up on a pretty frame or something.
I'll do something special.
But I'm still using them.
So this is probably my favourite item out of all of them.
This was given to me by my great-grandmother.
And because my parents were so young when I was born, so at the time, the only person that could look after me eight, nine hours a day while I was very, very little was my great-grandmother.
And so she raised me really all the way up until I was seven years old.
I was so close to her.
I mean, she was my everything.
If you look at photos of her from when she was young and you look at me, a lot of my family say I'm like a photocopy of her.
And when she passed, I was only seven and I took it really hard because we had such a bond and such a connection.