Thank You, Ancestors, for Teaching Me That Nothing Can Break Us

Writer and advocate Chelsey Luger pens a letter to her ancestors, thanking them for their resisilience and fortitude.

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Photo: Courtesy of Chelsey Luger; Pictured are five generations of the author’s family, clockwise from bottom left: Dorothy (Laducer) Herman; Freda Laducer Dilley; Clemence Laducer; Emily Lenoir; the author’s mother, Donna (Herman) Brown