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This is the notebook in which my mother’s father recorded the details of all of their births. His own, my grandmother’s, their children’s, his own father and my grandmother’s parents and siblings. My grandfather passed when my mother was little and I’ve had access to this book for a while for research but I just realized what a trip it is to touch the few things he handled. I also recognize how lucky we are that he wrote it all down and that this item wasn’t lost during exodus out of Ethiopia. The cover reads “Family’s Age Reminder Book, written February 14, 1941”

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