and said, hey, you know, i think i got an exclusive for the times about a slave sale in t georget.d she was kind of like, okay interesting. is that even a story. and so is my great, great fortune that she didn't just delete the email. i mean, you have to remember this was before the 19 project. you know, this kind reporting was in tallahassee. coates had done his case for reparations, but it wasn't the kind of reporting that we typically do. but shes someone on the staff wd might have a sense this, and she remembered the book i had done about michelle ancestors tracing enslaved ancestors back to the 1800s. so she forwarded the to me and i knew immediately i knew it was the story. my reporting about michelle obama's ancestors had allowed me to explo slavery shaped american families. and i thought that this would be the step to look at how slavery shaped one of our elite institution. so but what i didn't know was, you know who were the 272. and that's wanted to find out. can i just tell you? i, i, i was so moved by every aspect of that story, which is i rstand the back story until i