For the first minute...The audience listened politely.For the second...They leaned forward.By the third...No one was looking at their phones.No one was taking notes.They were simply listening.Amina stood alone beneath the lights.She never mentioned Orion.Not once.Instead, she spoke about her grandmother.A woman who could not read.Who remembered history through songs.Who believed every child deserved to know where they came from."When I was ten," Amina said, "I asked my grandmother why she never wrote her stories down."She smiled."She looked at me and asked..."'If I tell them to you, will you remember?'A gentle ripple of laughter moved through the hall."I said yes."She paused."I was wrong."The audience grew quiet."I forgot names.""I forgot dates.""I forgot details.""But..."She looked across the thousands of faces before her."I never forgot how she made me feel."In the front row, Adrian sat with his hands folded quietly in his lap.Marcus leaned toward him.
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