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hallasimss · 11 months ago

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not something i usually talk about here but i had a little breakthrough in the family genealogy research today and istg i felt something over my shoulder. like an ancestor or something i'm not even kidding

#* mine.#( * bhm. )#hallasimss #( * like. generally i'm ambivalent on the concept of ghosts i don't really think they hang around like that. maybe they do maybe #| they don't who knows really but the sh*t i felt. the sh*t i f*cking felt opening up that document to scroll through the list #| of slave names and their countries/tribes of origin from a plantation i was looking into owned by people with the same #| last name as my maternal grandmother before she got married and had my mother. there's Igbo and Kongo and Mandinka and Fula #| and Yoruba and Senegalese and Caplaou [town of Grand-Lahou from the Ivory Coast] the longer the list got the more i broke out in chills #| idk. idk i just f*cking felt it i can't explain that. like i was in the right place and they had been waiting for me to find them #| even though i still haven't narrowed it down to specific names in the list yet #| still a little shaken. might have cried a bit closed the tab opened up CAS cried again the whole works. nine days left in BHM #| but they're making sure i don't forget this one God. the strength of my people. )

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