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https://storycorpsorg-staging.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/TanExtra2-copy.jpg17781000Grandma Crescenciana was no stranger to sacrificing for family. Her grandchildren called her Lola. They grew up hearing stories about her life in the Philippines and how hard she worked to survive. Four years after Lola passed, her grandson Kenneth came to StoryCorps to tell his mother Olivia about the greatest lesson Lola ever taught him.