How 4 generations of Korean-Canadian women reunited on an emotional Thanksgiving
CBC
For many families, this year marked the first Thanksgiving they could safely spend with their loved ones living in long-term care homes after due the loosening of pandemic restrictions.
For the Lee family, it was a special one. Four generations of women met outside the Rose of Sharon Korean Long Term Care Home in Toronto after a difficult year and a half without seeing the matriarch of their family.
On Sunday, Sunja Lee reunited with her 91-year-old mother, Bunim Suk, a resident at the home, along with the eldest granddaughter Gina Lee and her two young daughters, Lauren Sy and Kate Sy.
"I think it's really special given the fact that COVID-19 has kind of separated us for quite some time," Gina Lee,told CBC Metro Morning's Samantha Lui on Sunday.
"Any meeting is very special just because we all used to live together. So she's the reason why we all meet together … She still embodies that sense of family for us. Meeting her, it just brings you back to why family is amazing."
Lee said she looks to her grandmother as her "saviour."
She said her grandmother came to Canada when Lee was just two-and-a half-years old. Every time Lee would attend daycare, she would land in the infant intensive care unit with pneumonia.
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