Dear Grandma —

“I understand it all now”

Author’s Grandmother, Bernice (Sims) Coram, family photo

I write to you out of love and also to tell you what I can see now.

It all goes back to those Confederate dollar bills tacked on the wall in your home. Pinned on a small bulletin board in your kitchen. When I was a kid I would stare at them for hours and they seem to be trying to tell a story.