Dear Tashina, Getting to know you these past few weeks has been amazing, thank you again. It seems like Josephine became an activist in her own right. I think you’re right, she might not have felt like a leader at the time, but the clothes she sewed kept people warm. It gave them safety to fight. And they knew they had an elder in their neighborhood watching over them. I don’t think fighting always looks like how we think it does. The pumpkin bread you sent was delicious! I haven’t had it since I was a little boy. My dad always said it was a family secret recipe that even he wasn’t allowed to learn. We assumed it would die with Nana Ruth but getting some from you, it truly feels like I’ve connected with long lost family. I don’t want to ignore your questions about Kimunmoto. It’s weird to think about my home critically since it feels normal to me. But that’s the journey I’m on, uncovering and tracking the truth. Seeing the journey unfold until it reaches where I am now. I also recognize the differences between here and the rest of the nation. My grandmother, after becoming the leader of the Hundred and One group, used her strength and power to form this place. It isn’t a paradise by any means. There’s no Eden to be found where human nature lives. But it feels free. And from reading the letters from back in the sixties and seventies, both sent and