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To: To the stepfather

Sumud + Samah (Levantine) April 6, 2026

I will not name what you did. The naming is mine, not the letter's. I am writing this so the silence I kept for twenty years has a date on which it ended. Today is the date. Sumud — I remain rooted in my own life. You do not get to uproot it from where I am now.