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“The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.”
“If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.”
“The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.”
“I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls upon a wire, into an entirely private and thus irrelevant narra...”
