“If I hadn’t devoted all my time and energies to my grandmother I would be a terribly messed up person right now. I would be full of regret and really down on myself for that. I was able to spend some of the most precious time with her ever. The experience really made me grow up. I learned a lot – about family, about who is there for me, who is not”.

Keys believes that the experience completely changed her as a person:

“It was a whole different lifestyle for me. Before I was like, ‘Oh, I have to go to Miami? OK, I’m just going to hop on a plane tomorrow,’ but things had to completely change. It was stressful and it was very hard on my spirit. So it was hard and it was joyful. It was bittersweet.”

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