I have worn many hats, including descendant, writer, author, authority, and more. So I wasn’t prepared for the 2024 claim that supposedly happened decades years before when my mother Wilma allegedly promised Edna’s antique telephone used in the “votes for women” grassroots organizing to a family member. No related policy existed,
Since this episode couldn’t have happened without me, and I was collaborating with my mother Wilma about her mother Edna, I wasn’t prepared for this announcement decades later.
I had to make a decision. Request denied. Sorry, but it’s too late.
I felt badly, but I’d received no financial compensation for the collection donation and the outpouring of valuable volunteer hours I’d spent on the total project. Sorry, but I can’t choose between an item essential to the work my grandmother did that’s also included in a photograph donated to an important US women’s history archive.
I’m dealing with this now, in 2024, as I organize an enormous amount of evidence and documents, plus other evidence associated with this project. This seems to be an essential matter for the individual involved. And I must make a pivotal decision. It is important, and one of many difficult decisions that had to be finished.
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