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Welcome to Storybound. Presented by Lit Radio and the Poglomerate.

I'm your host, Jude Brewer.

This is our final episode of the season.

Coming up in one minute, you will hear a story told by Mitchell Jackson,

followed by a song from Zane, featuring Stephanie Strange.

And if you stick around until after the credits,

you'll get to hear a conversation between myself

and our executive producer Jeff Umbrough. My name is Mitchell S. Jackson and I will be reading the prologue of survival math notes on an all-American family.

It's a letter to a man named Marcus Lopez, who was the first black man to

ever step foot on what became my home state, Oregon. Dear Marcus, ain't no way you could know this,

but you were the first of us to set foot on the land that became the state where I was born.

Oregon.

And now here we are strangers, but not estranged.

More like kindred.

More like forever more tethered to tear a firmer by a death date and a birth date.

Yours, August 16th, 1788. Mine, August 16th, 1975.

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