you. then one after another it would go on and on for hours i would fill note books. once i got them talking they remembered a tremendous amount. but it was really then i would ask them for letters and documents. i became obsessed. do you feel like it s lift ad burden to have written all this down to discover, to reach out to family members in a way that your reporter instincts had you do? traditionally people say to understand it s to forgive. i point out sometimes have to forgive before you can understand. there was a certain amount of forgiveness that had to take place before i embarked on this journey. my long trip home. you came up with this title. it has a couple of meanings. the first meaning i took a lot of trips as a young child. there were a lot of new homes where i didn t know anybody or what await immediate. the second meaning, obviously, is that the reporting of this book and the writing of this book was a long trip. a journalistic and emotional trip. t