"Stories"

As time passes, we repeatedly suffer the great loss of those people who we've looked up to, respected, and loved, but we can mitigate that loss somewhat by learning as much as we can from them and by keeping them in our minds and hearts. In the process we learn who we are by learning more about where we truly come from. Sometimes our stories are not as exactly as we assumed or exactly what we were allowed think growing up. Often the narrative is quite different from the truth. With that in mind, the only way we can truly know ourselves is to learn as much as we can from those who came before.