People and misogyny are complicated, and there it was. That this story was told entirely from a perspective that glorified my great-grandfather doesn’t mean that he was undamaged by the norms he enforced and that benefitted him. He may have suffered real trauma related to the political violence that surrounded him for most of his life. Any harms that he suffered were not, however, vividly inscribed on his body and mind. He did not suffer the indignities and abuse that my great-grandmother had at his hands. In the story of our family, he was the hero, accruing accolades for his acquisitions,
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