my great great grand aunt was mary jane clark. mary jane clark was my grandmother's aunt was her mother's half sister. mary jane clark was one of the women working at a heart factory on june 2nd, 1892, who here's the sexual assault that we're going to talk about that precipitates the lynching. she tends to the female victim and had talked about this. my grandmother heard the story from her aunt jennie, and of course, that i had heard it from my grandma. and what really was the the final push to do the book was was that my grandma's house? and she was going through her her family information, which was a big manila folder of just stuff stuffed in it. and she was going to show me something else in a newspaper article. was there from 1985, which talked about her great aunt or my great aunt mary jane, and the lynching. and she says, you know, michael, john, you should really write about this because you do a good job. now, the trick there was she used my middle name, john, that meant this isn't really a request. it's not really a reco