December 26th 2004, Tsunami takes the lives of 140 thousand plus and millions are left homeless. A manila envelope contains a cassette tape, labeled January 24th 2005, Oprah Winfrey ...Horrific genocide going on in Sudan.
More newspaper clippings: Israel leaves the Gaza Strip …..No peace between Israel and Lebanon, yet fighting is repressed. Hurricane Katrina, no mercy, yet countless show mercy.
Shannon lifts the stack of random newspaper articles, setting them aside. Dad must have gone through the clippings shortly before he'd disappeared, the most recent articles on the bottom. Hillary Clinton, April 2008: Will she be able to reconcile and salvage their party, bringing strength to Obama against the McCain campaign? Myanmar government refuses relief efforts. China ...shock, shock and aftershock.
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Beneath all those clippings are a stack of notebooks. She lifts the top notebook and tilts it towards the dim light. She recognizes Dad’s writing.
Dad had handwritten the title in ink: The Essence .
Shannon needs no explanation for that. She knows the reference. He must have written it after the prayer in school fiasco, right before he and Mom got married.
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