A vibrantly colored metal souvenir plate from Ecuador in 2011.

This weeks episode considers a small souvenir plate made of stamped metal that reminds me of my father in a very circuitous way. I bought the plate in Ecuador, dad was born in Ecuador, his birthday was last week, my cousin in Ecuador recently sent me a copy of a letter from my father to my uncle in Ecuador sent in 1970, just a couple of years before I was born. It seems like now is the time to dig into my origin story, family drama and secrets, and the mythology of the patrilineal line. This is a two part topic because even a steeply abbreviated version would not fit, and I needed to save some room for a Spanish poem or two.

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