All Chapters of Claimed by my ex husband’s uncle : Chapter 181

WHAT REMAINSELENA'S POVIn December, I add one more entry to my father's letter.Not to the letter itself — that is his, complete, sealed, in the drawer of the nightstand where it has lived since the year we moved to this house. I add an entry to the document I began keeping when Roberta was born: a record addressed to him, of what has been built from what he built.I do this annually, in December, because December is when I feel the full weight and the full warmth of what the year has contained. I have been doing it for six years. The document is not long — a page or two each year, the things I want him to know about the year that has passed, the things his granddaughter said, the things the record has done, the ways the roots have held everything up.This year's entry is longer than the others.I write about Roberta's essay and Robert's theory of roots and seeds. I write about the literacy program at three thousand participants and the amendment in its second year and Adaeze's seco