in mexico. and then most recently losing my grandmother to covid, so it's definitely come to define these last two years for me. >> you also write about your efforts to get your family vaccinated, saying i worked hard to convince family members to get vaccinated and was able to get at least ten of them the shot, but i couldn't convince everyone. brittny, what made it difficult to convince your family to get vaccinated? >> i think there was a lot of misinformation, disinformation. my family members who kind of rely on youtube to get their news, and it was kind of difficult to try and make the case for why they should get vaccinated. it was a lot of conversations even with my own mom she'd gotten a flu shot and gotten sick, and so we had many conversations about it. and so it was just a variety of factors. i think i have some family members who are just anti-vax but others who are just scared -- scared and think they're going to have an alurjic