FAMILY SECRET: CLAIMING MY FATHER'S TOY
I set the phone face down and don't look at it again.
Then I gather everything, the archive screenshots, the restitution claim, the ownership chain documentation, all of it, and I put it in a folder and I get dressed to go see Professor Moreau, and I think about Bernard Allard sitting in Geneva with his respected collection and his museum donation and his careful documentation, and I think about Rachel Weis at twenty-two filing a claim for her father's stolen inventory in 1946 and receiving six of fourteen works back.
Eight unlocated.
One of them is located now..