Aunt Riua interlude

Does your family have "spirit doppelgängers"... these are people in your family that have identical paths that are aligned to yours....or the same dialect even though you're worlds/decades apart.....or the same body language. I noticed it on my moms side of the family since the elder women are almost identical and they passed down a lot of traits and trauma through the generations unknowingly. My maternal grandmother, "Connie" has three sisters that are the "matriarchs" of our family as they are all within four years of each other. One of her sisters Diane, my namesake, changed her name to Riua Akinshegun and I definitely have been blessed with her spirit of life and love for travel and natural healing. She has a lot of stories written/published and has traveled and lived abroad. There is no way she can fit them in just one episode so we will give her interludes for now as she learns how to navigate her own podcast world. Thank you for listening and I pray this makes your day or helps you heal, if needed. The interlude begins with us (myself and my grandmother) looking through Riua's photo albums that she has meticulously kept up. YouTube video with a visual to follow. 21:20 Riua tells her first story of her father set in Chicago. The father of the four matriarchs. 27:20 Riua reads letters from her travels abroad to "people she could have been" where she briefly reflects on her Black Panther work and what paralyzed her along with her decision to LIVE. 42:20 TRIGGER WARNING. The trauma the matriarchs dealt with as young girls in a short story format. The recording ends abruptly after the story ended as it got emotional for my grandmother. https://youtu.be/csjpwpJMduw Thank you again for listening and taking an even deeper ride into my perfectly IMPERFECT world.