Who in your life has influenced you the most? How did they do it?

My grandmother.

She was a very determined and hard working, spirited woman. She divorced at a time and place when "women" did not dare do this & with four mga sanggol and no money from a drunk who was cheating on her (even though she loved him, she had to... he was abusive to her and possibly sexually abusive to one daughter) and yet she left & raised those mga sanggol all sa pamamagitan ng herself and then met the man of her dreams. (Who became an ideal father figure too though the the children were grown). He is the only grandpa any of us knew and we dearly loved him too.