The Akan venerated their ancestors. They participated in traditional offerings to the spirits and dance. They ate and drank and communed together to a...ccompany Fadi to this next phase. The partying was wild and fun. Fires blazed at nightfall.The Queen-Mother was busy with the other senior members of the town figuring out who would be the next chief. She put forward her grandson, the eldest c***d of her daughter. Leadership passed matrilineally in this society. The body and the blood came from. “It’s beautiful here, Jackson and I are very lucky. I understand that I might have you to thank for this as well Mrs. Miles. We haven’t been formally introduced, I’m Katie Frasier.” Katie extended her hand with the palm down as she would have to a man of Margaret’s ‘good old days’. “There is no introduction necessary for me KatieDear, your husband’s sweet mother has told me so much about you I feel like I already know you.” Margaret took Katie’s hand in her long soft fingers and gently. Suddenly each of them began to move, to take on its own personality, and to have its own meaning. As he watched the shadows and their hypnotic dance, he began to lose track of the present. His inner thoughts took over. He was slipping away to another place. He felt himself being transported to this other place. Slowly his mind began to focus on this new place. It was a night and a place much like the one that he had just left. Or had he just left it? The line between reality and this place. ”I smiled and nodded. Tricia kissed her father on the cheek. “Thank you for playing nice, Dad,” she said with a gentle smile and went to the fridge to get something. She came back and slipped a rose with baby’s breath into my buttonhole and handed me her corsage box. I pinned it carefully to her dress and we posed for a picture before we were off to the car.Her eyes bugged out when she saw it. “A limo?!!? Really?” she gushed.I laughed and Darnell grinned at us winningly. “I couldn’t exactly.