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Family Photos Can Change You
How one novelist reconnected with the ancestors she never met
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7 min readMay 28, 2021
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Lucky for me, my father was a packrat. Dad spoke little about his childhood in China during the Warlord Era, but he kept suitcases full of artifacts, most of which only surfaced after his death in 2007. Among these mementos, I discovered photographs that swept me back…