Steve Bunting

But yeah, it got lost along the way.

And then next was a little blanket that had a duck embroidery on it from my mom, my mom's mom, who ended up moving to Alabama.

And the third one was a letter from my grandma, my dad's mom.

It was a pencil-written letter that I kept with me everywhere we went.

It's like I'd grab our clothes, throw it in the trash bags, and I'd have that letter.

And I kept it my whole time.

So when I joined the military and I got to Camp Pendleton, I checked into First Recon, I remember I had that letter.

I pulled it out, and I wrote a letter to that address.

And I said, hey, I don't know if you're still my grandma or my grandpa, but I'm your grandson, and I'm in the military now, and I'm in California, and I'd love to meet you.

And this is back, I think I had just gotten one of those Nokia 5590 brick phones.

And I was like, hey, here's my phone number if you want to call me.

So it was probably like two weeks and I get a phone call on that phone.

And she's like, hi.

She called me by my middle name.

She's like, hi, you know, I'm your grandma.

I was like, oh, hi, grandma.

She's like, I'm so excited to hear you, me and your grandpa are looking forward to seeing you.

And I'm like, oh, that's awesome.

I'm like, well, I'm at Camp Pendleton.

I don't have a car or anything.