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"what sort of evidence do you have?" I can tell already that Carl and Lawrence like each other, both are relaxed and smiling in each other's presence. "It's anecdotal, but better than nothing. Recently I have come to know two different relatives I didn't know that I had, both from my father's side. There is a half-sister, Naomi, whom my father fathered with an indigenous woman with the local Stolo Nation. She is a community health nurse. Recently I have come to know her and she disclosed to me everything that she knows about the curse her grandfather's people invoked aginst the house and property. And then there is a third cousin of mine, also recently discovered, whom I met through Naomi. Her name is Cynthia. She would be somewhere in her fifties, I think, and she coordinates a help and shelter and protection centre for prostitutes and battered women. Lawrence seems quiet and reflective at this moment. Then he says, "Not Cynthia from the Safe Women Collective, by any chance?" "That is her. Do you know her?" "Cynthia happens to be my aunt...