She looked through the clear window and saw the full moon as bright and as big as ever staring back down at her surrounded by a radiant flawless stars and she suddenly felt anything was possible. She took her son and held him up high and over her head as she had seen on the epic saga Roots when she was a child. Then she began mouthing the words that Kunta Kinte's father had espoused at the joyous birth of his son: "'behold the only thing greater than yourself.'[ii] Heavenly Father Jehovah, I give you Jayden Eric Townsend your faithful servant. Bless be your name, amen."




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