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November 12, 2003, to November 21, 2003

· Black, Daniel. Don't Cry for Me. Hanover Square Press, 2022. Hardcover.

· In the “Author Note,” Daniel Black remembers when his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2013.

· Black had always wanted to talk to his dad about how they “had hurt or disappointed one another over the years,” (11), but his father’s memory faded and the encounter never happened.

· Black says that his father grew up in a time when Black children were not important.

· He, and most other Black children, did not have a birth certificate.

· Their existence centered on work and church, and even the church considered them to be sinners and scoundrels.

· When Black’s father retired from being a mechanic and wanted to draw Social Security, he was told he needed a birth certificate.

· When he said he did not have one, he was told to get a birth certificate form and...

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