Kara’s POV. “Keep it going,” Emmanuel Asante had written. “Emmanuel Asante, Ghana, 1998.” Grace held the letter. She read the last line again. Then she looked at Emmanuel. The living Emmanuel. Her grandmother’s brother. Standing in front of her in the second floor of the foundation his cousin’s documentation had helped build. “He knew you would come,” Grace said. Not to me. To Emmanuel. “Yes,” Emmanuel said. “He said: when you find them, give it to the one who carries the work. She will understand.” He paused. “He believed the family would find each other.” He paused. “He was right.” “He was always right,” Grace said. The same words. The same words that had been said about every person in the chain. She was always right. He was always right. Always right before the proof arrived. Because the proof was never the point. The building was the point. The belief was the point. Grace folded the letter. She looked at me. “This goes in the permanent collection,” she said.
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