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Roxie
I got the sense that it was meant to show how complicated "inheritance" is. In the same way that the Black Cake, which is passed down in the family, has ties to slavery and the sugar trade, these objects that were left behind also had a complicated history.
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Patty
maybe just to connect the characters together
Sherri Brauss
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