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Family Tapestry
Kinship woven in gumbo steam.
Family in New Orleans is not a diagram. It is thread — matriarch memory, patriarch stubbornness, cousin at the door with a pot and an opinion.
Tapestry is labor, not décor. Gumbo steam is sacrament. Second line feet learn belonging before language can explain it.
Symphony is declined. Harmony is Tuesday dinner with discord in the gravy and love still ladled.
The next chapter weaves itself in the steam.
JV · Dark Heart Labs