Then your grandmother was a very educated woman if—as you told me—she was a slave yet could read. Did you teach yourself to read, too? I find reading Goethe to be quite a mental workout. If you ever do come to Germany, we simply have to hike up the Brocken, because that’s where Goethe wrote his famous work Faust. And the Sachsenspiegel was written just two kilometers from where I live, at Falkenstein Castle.