Shawn Racoma

She used to babysit me from very young and treated me like her own. She lived on a ranch, Kahua Ranch in Ewa Beach with her husband Keoki, son Pat. Pat eventually got married to a girl named Linda. They lived next to a family named Dudoit. They had 2 kids, Buddy and Lei. Buddy taught me how to hunt. My adopted grandma showed me how to eat poi, black crab (a'ama) and was very living and kind. I would visit her even in my teen and young adult years as I considered her my closest grandma. She had a small pond in her front yard that had a large umbrella tree or he'e tree that I used to shoot munjidoes in. Cats would follow me because they knew they would get to eat. I remember we used to lay this army blanket on the floor eat potato chips and drink soda while watching wrestling, Hawaii style.